Donald Howard Yarborough (December 15, 1925 – September 23, 2009)[1][2] was an American Democratic politician who was among the first in the U.S. South to endorse the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

His mother, Inez Black Yarborough, was head of the Women in Yellow volunteer corps at the Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston.

After the war, Yarborough enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he belonged to the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, and worked part-time to supplement the money he received under the G.I.

In 1963, Yarborough was named by Life magazine as one of the 100 young Americans who were "distinguished by their dedication to something larger than private success, because they dared to act against old problems, the boldness to try out new ideas, and a hard-bitten, undaunted hopefulness about man.

"[6] After leaving politics, Yarborough worked as a lobbyist for the Paraplegia Cure Research in Washington, D.C., where he lived on Capitol Hill and in McLean, Virginia.