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Frank Kell Cahoon, Sr. (June 20, 1934 – January 30, 2013),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frank Kell Cahoon (1934-2013) )〕 was an oilman and natural gas entrepreneur from Midland, Texas,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frank Cahoon )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frank Kell Cahoon )〕 who was the only Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives in the regular 1965 legislative session.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Testing the Teflon", December 6, 1999 )〕 Cahoon served two terms in the legislature from 1965 to 1969.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frank Cahoon )〕 Cahoon was not the first Republican member of the chamber since Reconstruction but was outnumbered in his first term, 149 to 1.〔 By 2011, Republicans in the Texas House had reached 101 members to 49 for the Democrats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sibyl West, "Two Democrats' defections give Republicans SUPERMAJORITY in Texas House", December 14, 2010 )〕 In 2013, there are ninety-five Republicans and fifty-five Democrats in the state House. ==Background== Cahoon was born in Wichita Falls to Charles Wilbur Cahoon, Jr. (1897–1979), and the former Sibyl Kell (1899–1991).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Heritage Review'', 2009 )〕 His maternal grandfather and namesake, Frank Kell (December 2, 1859 – September 17, 1941), a native of Clifton in Bosque County in Central Texas, was a diversified businessman and the owner or partner of six regional railroads totaling 1,300 miles of track. Cahoon's father was a partner in one of the Kell railroads, the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which serviced part of the Texas Panhandle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad )〕 Frank Kell also owned the Wichita Mill and Elevator Company, which he sold in 1928 to General Mills for cash and stock in the latter company. The senior Kell was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a leading entrepreneur and philanthropist in Wichita County. In 1885, Frank Kell married the former Lula Kemp. He and his brother-in-law, Joseph A. Kemp, are considered the two principal builders of modern Wichita Falls. Kell and Kemp are names of major streets in Wichita Falls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kell, Frank )〕 Cahooon's parents and maternal grandparents are interred at Riverview Cemetery in Wichita Falls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grave Search Results )〕 Cahoon was a nephew by marriage of the Wichita Falls attorney Orville Bullington, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1932, having lost to the Democrat Miriam Wallace Ferguson in her second nonconsecutive bid for the office. Bullington, a son-in-law of Frank Kell,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington )〕 was married until his death to Cahoon's aunt, the former Sadie Kell (1886-1960).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Death certificate, William Orville Bullington )〕 Frank Kell Cahoon lost his namesake grandfather when the boy was only seven years of age. Cahoon graduated in 1952 from Wichita Falls High School, along with another future legislator, Democrat State Senator Ray Farabee of Wichita Falls. Coincidentally, Cahoon, Farabee, and their wives had a chance meeting in 2006 on a cruise ship in New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="A Man Called 'Fairbee': Former Wichita Falls lawyer, legislator known as man of respect", November 3, 2007 )〕 Cahoon and his wife, the former Paula Powers (born November 11, 1935), both graduated in 1957 from the University of Texas at Austin. His degree is in geology. Cahoon originally attended the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, but he transferred to UT in Austin after his freshman year in Colorado, when he met Paula in Abilene. She was scheduled to enroll in UT at the time.〔 Cahoon was a first lieutenant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, from 1957 to 1959, at which time the young couple and daughter, now Corrinne Cahoon Bowers and husband Steve of Austin, relocated to Midland.〔 There are two Cahoon sons, Frank Kell Cahoon, Jr., and wife Debbie of Austin and Joseph Cahoon and wife Christie of Dallas. Older son Frank Kell Cahoon, Jr., is a filmmaker formerly in Hollywood, known particularly for his work in the television series ''Psych'' and ''The John Larroquette Show'' and the film ''Battle: Los Angeles''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kell Cahoon )〕 In addition to his Texas oil holdings, Cahoon played a role in the construction of the Kenai oil refinery, one of the first such ventures in Alaska.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Kell Cahoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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