sentences:  In 1961, Maverick made his last run for elective office, campaigning (along with seventy other Democrats) in a special election for the United States Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.With the support of the Texas AFL-CIO, he ran fourth out of the five major Democratic candidates, with 10 percent of the vote, behind appointee Senator William Blakley (18 percent), future House Speaker Jim Wright (16 percent), and State Attorney General Will Wilson (11.5 percent), but ahead of State Senator Henry B. Gonzalez (9 percent).Having split the liberal vote, thus allowing the conservative Blakley to make the runoff against Republican John Tower (who received 31 percent in the initial round and was narrowly elected in the runoff), Maverick and Gonzalez, a friend and fellow San Antonian, stopped speaking to one another for almost the next twenty years.