Gus Franklin Mutscher was born on November 19, 1932, and lived until February 26, 2023, and was a Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, having served from 1969 to 1972.
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He was one of several Texas politicians indicted in the Sharpstown bank stock fraud scandal. He was convicted and sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to accept a bribe. Mutscher, however, was later cleared on appeal.
Mutscher’s opponents, many within his own Democratic Party, were known as the “Dirty 30”; their ranks included Joseph Hugh Allen of Baytown, Carlos Truan of Corpus Christi, and Robert Gammage of Houston.
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While working for the Borden Company, Mutscher was first elected in 1960, at the age of twenty-eight, to the Texas House of Representatives in 1960, when the Kennedy/Johnson slate narrowly won in Texas.
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Mutscher married the 1964 Miss America, Donna Axum of El Dorado, Arkansas; the marriage ended in divorce; she remarried and resided with her third husband in Fort Worth.
After his legislative service, Mutscher was first appointed and then elected as the administrative county judge of his native Washington County. He resided in the county seat of Brenham.
Mutscher died on February 26, 2023, at the age of 90.
Gus Franklin Mutscher Net Worth At Time Of Death
The data available cannot put a finger or a figure on how much Gus Franklin Mutscher was worth at the time of death but I would say that he was a prominent man and politics they say is expensive and he being a former politician means he was worth quite a lot.
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