Goode worked on the successful Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential campaign in 1952 . He was a chairman of the San Antonio Municipal Civil Service Commission , and he was a Republican county chairman . He was a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention held in Chicago to nominate the unsuccessful Nixon-Lodge ticket . In November 1961 , he was the Republican candidate in a special election for the United States House of Representatives for Texas ' 20th congressional district but was defeated by the Democrat , Henry B. Gonzalez , the first Hispanic to serve in both the Texas State Senate and as a member of Congress from Texas . Goode had been hopeful of a political upset after former president Dwight Eisenhower flew to San Antonio to campaign with Goode . The candidate also received support from a Conservative Democratic group . Mexican film star Cantinflas appeared with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at San Antonio shopping centers and supermarkets to rally voters for Gonzalez
1960 Republican National Convention
1960 Republican National Convention
John W. Goode