practiced law in San Antonio. Personal and death Maverick was a cousin of congressmen Abram Poindexter Maury and John W. Fishburne of Virginia and nephew of congressman James Luther Slayden of Texas, who married Ellen (Maury) at a Maury home called Piedmont in Charlottesville, Virginia, now part of the University of Virginia. They are related to Matthew Fontaine Maury, Dabney Herndon Maury, and the early and prominent Fontaine, Dabney, Brooke, Minor, Mercer, Herndon, Slaughter, and Slayden families of Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas. He married Terrell Louise Dobbs and had a daughter and a son, San Antonio newspaper editorialist Maury Maverick, Jr. (who died in 2003 at the age of 82). Maverick died on June 7, 1954. His widow later married the distinguished Texas author and historian Walter Prescott Webb. Notes References Retrieved on 2008-01-25. Doyle, Judith Kaaz. Out of Step: Maury Maverick and the Politics of the Depression and the New Deal. Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1989. Henderson, Richard B. Maury Maverick: A Political Biography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970. Weiss, Stuart L. “Maury Maverick and the Liberal Bloc” Journal of American History 57 (March 1971): 880-95. American Notes & Queries: Gobbledygook talk: Maury Maverick's name for the long high-sounding words of Washington's red-tape language, 1944. Tuscaloosa News, of Alabama: The explanation sounds like gobbledeegook to me, 1945. Maury Family Tree (book) by Sue West Teague. External links 1895 births 1954 deaths Military personnel from San Antonio United States Army officers United States Army personnel of World War I Mayors of San Antonio Texas lawyers Recipients of the Silver Star Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American lawyers TMI Episcopal alumni