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James Joseph McConn (March 15 1928 – March 14 1997) was the mayor of Houston Texas from 1978 to 1982. To date McConn was the last Republican to take the mayoral office. McConn was born in Tulsa Oklahoma. He moved with his family to Houston in 1939 where he met Marjorie Gougenheim whom he married in 1947.