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Ray Farabee
Kenneth Ray Farabee (November 22, 1932 – November 20, 2014) was an attorney in Austin, Texas, who served as a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from Wichita Falls from 1975 to 1988. He is credited with the authorship of 245 Senate bills that became law during his 13-year tenure.〔 In 1985, he was the Senate President Pro Tempore. He is the father of former State Representative David Farabee of Wichita Falls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dave McNeely, "Representative David Farabee retiring a blow for Democrats", October 4, 2009 )〕
==Early years, education, and family==
Farabee was born on November 22, 1932,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenneth Ray Farabee )〕 six weeks prematurely in Wichita Falls, the seat of Wichita County in north Texas. His attending physician did not expect him to live through the night of his birth, but he survived.〔''Ray Farabee: Making It Through the Night and Beyond: A Memoir'', 2009, ISBN 978-0-615-25762-4〕 Well into the Great Depression years, he attended Alamo Elementary School and Zundelowitz Junior High School. He graduated in 1952 from Wichita Falls High School. During his junior and senior years of high school, he attended a Young Men's Christian Association youth program called Hi-Y at the Texas state capitol in Austin. The organization trained young people in various aspects of government service. Farabee hence developed an understanding of public affairs more than three decades before he entered the Texas Senate to succeed newly elected U.S. Representative Jack English Hightower of Vernon, the seat of Wilbarger County west of Wichita Falls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jessica Langdon, "A Man Called 'Fairabee': Former Wichita Falls lawyer, legislator known as man of respect" )〕 Farabee has been a high achiever throughout his life but confesses that he failed to make the coveted promotion to Eagle Scout in his youth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Barnes, "Through the Night and Beyond with Ray Farabee, Part 1", October 12, 2009 ) 〕
Read Granberry, parliamentarian of the Texas House of Representatives, heard Farabee at a youth speech event and urged him to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he procured Bachelor of Business Administration and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas Law School. He managed to procure a small scholarship and lived in a $10-per-month barracks dormitory. He became acquainted with the then Texas Secretary of State John Ben Shepperd and worked thereafter for him when Shepperd served as the state attorney general from 1953 to 1957.〔 Farabee was the UT freshmen class president and later the student body president. He visited the University of Wisconsin at Madison as part of his student political activities. There he met his future first wife, the former Helen Jane Rehbein (1934–1988),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Helen Jane Rehbein Farabee )〕 who became the mother of his two sons. Helen was the student body president at UW, a rare accomplishment for a young woman at that time. The couple married in 1958 after their graduations and following Farabee's service in the United States Air Force.〔
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