Don Kennard (May 6, 1929 – March 17, 2011) was a United States politician for the
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representing
Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...
and
Tarrant County in both the
Texas House of Representatives and the
Texas Senate from 1953 to 1973. Kennard represented the former District 60–3 in the Texas House from
53rd through the
62nd Legislatures, and the
Tenth District in the
58th through the
62nd Legislatures.
Kennard was an early proponent of a wide variety of conservation-related initiatives in the Legislature. He is particularly celebrated for his success in securing dedicated funding for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department from cigarette taxes.
Kennard was indirectly responsible for the
Fort Worth Zoo
The Fort Worth Zoo is a zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, that was founded in 1909 with one lion, two bear cubs, an alligator, a coyote, a peacock and a few rabbits. The zoo now is home to 7,000 native and exotic animals and has been named ...
obtaining a baby elephant in 1964.
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Following his service in the Legislature, Kennard taught and led research efforts at the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (or LBJ School of Public Affairs) is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970 to offer training in public policy analysis and administration for students that ar ...
at the
University of Texas. He is especially noted for coordinating the Natural Area Survey, which provided the blueprint for many years of later public land acquisitions of Texas areas of special ecological, scenic, or historic value.
References
External links
Texas Legacy Project*
People from Fort Worth, Texas
Democratic Party Texas state senators
Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
1929 births
2011 deaths
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