The ballot for the Democratic Primary on May 2, 1864 presented Texans of that political persuasion with the choice of keeping the incumbent in the U.S. Senate for six more years or replacing him with a colorful challenger who been calling himself “The Old Scotchman” since his twenties.
Gordon Barton McClendon was born in 1920 at Paris in the northeastern corner of the Lone Star State but spent his …
