United States representative politician
He attended Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, where he met Jack Crichton and Hassaram Rijhumal "Bum" Bright, and thereafter Southern Methodist University.
He later became involved with banking and other investments. In May 1961, he was elected mayor to succeed Robert L. Thornton. Family
Cabell was the 4th of 4 sons of the then former 1900-1904 City of Dallas Mayor Ben East. Cabell and also the grandson of the former multi-term City of Dallas Mayor William L. Cabell of the late 19th Century.
He was the brother of Charles Cabell, who was deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency until Charles resigned in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
On February 3, 1964, Cabell resigned as mayor of Dallas in order to run for He unseated the ten-year Republican incumbent Bruce Alger. In that same election, Jack Crichton was defeated by a wide margin by the Democratic Governor John B. Connally, Junior., and George Herbert Walker Bush fell to Senator Ralph West. Yarborough.
Cabell served four terms in the House before he was defeated by the Republican Alan Steelman in the 1972 election. Following his defeat, he retired in Dallas, where he lived until his death in 1975 from emphysema.
He was buried at Restland Cemetery in Dallas.
The Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse on Commerce Street in Dallas is named in his honor.
Cabell was mayor at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was later a member of the United States. House of Representatives.