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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 01 > Ex-mayor who brought Rangers to Texas dies at 84

Ex-mayor who brought Rangers to Texas dies at 84

By Schuyler Dixon / The Bulletin
January 1, 2011

DALLAS — Tom Vandergriff, the former Dallas-area mayor who lured the Texas Rangers out of Washington nearly 40 years ago, died Thursday. He was 84.

The former Arlington mayor’s son, Victor Vandergriff, said his father died of natural causes at a Fort Worth hospital. Tom Vandergriff had....

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