* Jim Rayburn, founder of non-denominational Christian youth organization Young Life

Like other hosts of the day, Trebek made several guest appearances as panelist or player on other shows ; one of his guest appearances was on a special week of NBC's Card Sharks, in 1980, where he and several other game show hosts ( including Allen Ludden, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Jack Clark, Gene Rayburn, and Jim Lange ) competed in a week-long round robin tournament for charity.

The hosts who participated in that event were Allen Ludden, Gene Rayburn, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Tom Kennedy, Alex Trebek, Jack Clark and Jim Lange.

Young Life was founded by Jim Rayburn in 1941.

Jim Rayburn, Jr ( 1909-1970 ) was an ordained Presbyterian minister and the founder of Young Life.

Rayburn's personal journals were published in 2008 as The Diaries of Jim Rayburn.

* Rayburn, Jim: The Diaries of Jim Rayburn ( 2008 ) Rayburn's personal journals, edited and annotated by Kit Sublett Morningstar Press and Whitecaps Media ISBN 978-0-9758577-7-9

* The Jim Rayburn Foundation

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Jim Rayburn started the organization on Oct. 16 1941 in Dallas TX.

* Rayburn, Jim III ; From Bondage To Liberty – Dance, Children, Dance a biography by his son ( 2000 ) ISBN 0-9673897-4-7

* Rayburn, Jim: The Diaries of Jim Rayburn ( 2008 ) Rayburn's personal journals, edited and annotated by Kit Sublett Morningstar Press and Whitecaps Media ISBN 978-0-9758577-7-9

* A " Game Show Hosts " special featuring Gene Rayburn, Gary Owens, Tom Kennedy, Dennis James, and Jim Lange, plus Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows co-author Fred Wostbrock.

His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.

The only regular panelist was Match Game host Gene Rayburn, who occupied the lower-left square ; Bauman, in turn, filled that seat during Match Game.

He first appeared on Robert Q. Lewis's The Name's the Same ; Rayburn frequently sat in for regular panelist Carl Reiner, lending a comic touch to the panel.

However, around this time Entertainment Tonight allegedly reported that Rayburn was 70 years old ; he was in fact only 69, however this was still several years older than most producers thought he was.

Coppell has uniquely convenient automobile transportation ; no freeways go directly through the city, but the entire perimeter is served by SH121 and the Sam Rayburn Tollway ( west and north ), Interstate 635 ( south ), and the President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 35E ( east ).

Rayburn was instrumental to LBJ's ascent to power, particularly his unusual and rapid rise to the position of Minority Leader ; Johnson had been in the Senate for a mere four years when he assumed the role.

Rayburn alone determined who received an invitation to these gatherings ; to be invited to even one was a high honor.

He was himself readily accessible to members ; historian Anthony Champagne of the University of Texas at Dallas, a Rayburn scholar, views the Speaker as a " bridge between the northern and southern members " of the Democratic Party.

* Obituary, NY Times, November 16, 1961, Rayburn Is Dead ; Served 17 Years As House Speaker

In addition to the main campus which is located on 430 acres, the university maintains a agricultural research center for beef, poultry, and swine production and an equine center ; an observatory for astronomy research, an 1, 072-hectare ( approximately 2, 649-acre ) experimental forest in southwestern Nacogdoches County and a forestry field station on the Sam Rayburn Reservoir.

Their bodies then were tied in plastic sheeting and buried in any one of four places: a rented boat shed ; a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula ; a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn ( where his family owned a lakeside log cabin ); and a beach in Jefferson County.

On July 7, a 15-year-old named Homer Garcia, whom Henley had met at his driving school, phoned his mother to say he was spending the night with a friend ; he was shot and left to bleed to death in Corll's bathtub before he was also buried at Lake Sam Rayburn and on July 12, a 17-year-old Orange County youth named John Sellars was shot to death and buried at High Island Beach.

* Gene Rayburn — Announcer for The Tonight Show ; host of The Match Game and other game shows

During a 1955 episode of the game show Make the Connection, Muggs appeared with Joanne Cottingham, who served as his babysitter ; the panel was supposed to attempt to guess her relationship to the chimp, but after Muggs was introduced, he spent most of the segment running all over the set ( as well as behind it ) until host Gene Rayburn finally called the game and awarded Cottingham the show's maximum $ 150 payoff by default.

Among the young pages who've helped the NBC-tour customers and studio-audience members at the Radio City Studios before going on to media success have been original Today Show host Dave Garroway and longtime Today personality Willard Scott ; original Tonight Show creator / host Steve Allen and his announcer / sidekick Gene Rayburn ; broadcast journalist Ted Koppel ; TV host Regis Philbin ; TV producer Marcy Carsey ; actress Kate Jackson ; and movie / broadcasting mogul Michael Eisner.

From 1962 to 1969 Rayburn hosted The Match Game.

From 1944-1947, he worked as chief speechwriter for the Democratic National Committee, where he was a special assistant to its chairman Robert E. Hannegan, and prepared speeches for him, as well as for various Democratic politicians, such as Harry Truman, Tom Clark, Henry Wallace, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn and Estes Kefauver.

And, if we follow the Rayburn pattern, as consciously or by an instinctual political sense I like to think I have followed it, then the very nature of our loyalty to our own immediate areas must necessarily be reflected in the devotion of our services to our country.

These expansions and later supplements were mainly written by Norman F. Morin Jr., Brian Rayburn and Niels Erickson rather than Jeff & ' Manda Dee.

Rayburn was fired from Break the Bank after 13 weeks and several disputes with the producers, and by late 1986 was once again available.

She was recalled by the voters of Gilmer County, who elected Rayburn Smith in July 1997.

Aga cookers can also make a contribution to space heating, although it is not true that they can heat an entire house, despite persistent claims to the contrary, presumably arising because the cookers look similar to the many types of central-heating range such as the ' Stanley ' or the ' Rayburn ' Range, also made by the AGA Rangemaster Group.

He defeated Rayburn Waddell, a white, three-term incumbent, by 46 votes in the Democratic primary ( there was no Republican challenger ).

Sherman is served by two U. S. Highways: US 75 ( Sam Rayburn Freeway ) and US 82 ( the latter is locally designated as the Buck Owens Freeway after the famous musician who was born in Sherman ).

William Colmer, the mentor of later Representative and U. S. Senator Trent Lott, described McCormack as being far less effective as Speaker than Rayburn, with Colmer saying that McCormack " wanted to be liked " by his colleagues.

These terms represented two Republican short-term majorities in the House, and Martin's two terms were bookended by Sam Rayburn, The Texas Democrat and mentor of Lyndon Johnson with whom Martin enjoyed a warm personal relationship.

Dingell sworn in by Speaker Rayburn in 1955

The following year, he added duties on sister show What's My Line ?, and in 1962 began announcing in the original Match Game ( hosted by Gene Rayburn ) in daytime on NBC until that series ended in 1969.

Rayburn was born in Roane County, Tennessee, and was baptized by Elder H. G.

" William Colmer, another Mississippian and the mentor of later Representative and U. S. Senator Trent Lott, described Rayburn as a " very strong parliamentarian " who was far more effective than his successor, John McCormack of Massachusetts, whom Colmer found " wanted to be liked " by his colleagues.

Champagne recalled a report that Rayburn so understood the House that he was " married " to the body and could " feel the sentiment of the members " by merely being in their presence.

Stamp issued by the United States Postal Service commemorating Sam Rayburn.

* A documentary tentatively titled " Rayburn: Mr. Speaker " is currently in production from filmmaker Reed Penney, according to a report by the Texas A & M University-Commerce campus newspaper The East Texan.

* The leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn published 1961, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Address Delivered by The Honorable Sam Rayburn at the Dedication of the Marker over the Graves of His Great-Great Grandfather Col. George Waller and his wife Ann Winston Carr, Oakwood Cemetery, Martinsville, Virginia, May 6, 1951

Signed by U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower, the law was pushed through Congress by U. S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn.

In 1990, a reformed version of the band, with only Surkamp and Rayburn from the original line-up along with some contribution from Scorfina, recorded Lost in America for US label Telectro Records, which was re-released worldwide by Rockville Music in 2007, after TRC also having illegally bootlegged it in the late 1990s.

Morgan came close to marrying Kane ( in a ceremony presided over by Don Pardo ), but the wedding was interrupted by real-life game show host ( and " current husband ") Gene Rayburn.