Granberry Jim

American politician, the former mayor of Lubbock, Texas, who guided the city through a series of tornadoes that shattered the region on 11 May 1970. He imposed a curfew to restore order. He had just become mayor when the tornadoes occurred. He served only one two-year term from 1970 to 1972. He was a member of the Lubbock City Council from 1966 to 1970. He did not seek a second two-year term in 1972 and was succeeded by city councilman Morris W. Turner. Mayors and council members in Texas are all officially nonpartisan, but Granberry was known to be a Republican. In 1974, Granberry was the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee. He defeated the Republican gubernatorial nominee Odell McBrayer but won only 7 of the 254 counties and hence lost the general election by a wide margin to incumbent Democratic Governor Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less