Background
McConn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Jim McConn
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He attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and then returned to Houston, where he became engaged in the building-materials business and then in home construction.
Career
To date, McConn was the last Republican to take the mayoral office. He became president of the Greater Houston Homebuilders Association in 1969, and from there became known in local politics, having been appointed to a vacant seat on the Houston City Council by then Mayor Louie Welch in 1971. He was reelected to the council in 1973, but did not run in 1975.
In 1977, he ran for mayor.
After leaving office, McConn served as vice president of the Houston Sports Association, which at the time owned the Houston Astros baseball team (1981–1989), and as director of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau (1989–1997). He died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight.
Achievements
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In the first round, he lost by a large margin to conservative former district attorney Frank Briscoe, but he won the runoff election due in large part to support from minority voters and endorsements from other first-round candidates. He won reelection in 1979 against councilwoman Louis Macey, but lost to Kathy Whitmire in 1981.
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Political Party
Republican party