[8] A split between FDR and Vice president John Nance Garner over Supreme Court reorganization put Congressman Maverick in an extremely weakened position, leaving him unable to fund his reelection, which lead to his defeat in the primary for a third term in 1938.

Maverick returned to Texas where he was elected Mayor of San Antonio, again with support from minority voters, serving from 1939 to 1941, when he was labeled a Communist and defeated.

While serving at the Smaller War Plants Corporation he sent a message to his staff telling them[3]Memoranda should be as short as clearness will allow...

Put the subject matter--the point--and even the conclusion in the opening paragraph and the whole story on one page... Stay off the gobbledygook language.

He married Terrell Louise Dobbs and had a daughter and a son, San Antonio newspaper editorialist Maury Maverick, Jr. (who died in 2003 at the age of 82).