Mutscher married a former Miss America, Donna Axum of El Dorado, Arkansas; the marriage ended in divorce; she remarried and resides with her third husband in Fort Worth.
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While working for the Borden Company, Mutscher was first elected in 1960, at the age of twenty-eight, to the Texas House in 1960, when the Kennedy/Johnson slate narrowly won in Texas.
The investigation ended in the conviction of House Speaker Gus Mutscher for conspiring to accept bribes from promoter Frank Sharp, in the form of loans from the Sharpstown State Bank.
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Allegations of bribery to push the favorable bills through the government spread to House Speaker Gus Mutscher, Jr., State Representative Tommy Shannon, state Democratic chairman, state banking board member Elmer Baum, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes and even Governor Preston Smith.