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==Tributes== {{Gallery | title = | align = | footer = | style = | state = | height = | width = | captionstyle = | File:Portrait of Sam Rayburn.jpg | Portrait of Sam Rayburn by [[Serge Ivanoff]], 1958 | File:Stamp US 1962 4c Sam Rayburn.jpg | A stamp issued by the [[United States Post Office Department]] | alt1= | File:USS Sam Rayburn SSBN-635.jpg | Nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS ''Sam Rayburn'' | alt2= | File:Rayburn statue.JPG | A statue of Rayburn in the [[Rayburn House Office Building]] | alt3= | File:Samrayburnstudentcenter.JPG | A statue of Rayburn in front of the Sam Rayburn Student Center (opened in 2009) at [[East Texas A&M University]] | File:The Sam Rayburn Library and Museum, in Bonham, in Fannin County, Texas LCCN2014632707.tif |The Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in Bonham, Texas }} ===Named in his honor=== * [[Rayburn House Office Building]], which contains offices of House members and is adjacent to the [[United States Capitol]], completed in 1965. * Nuclear ballistic missile submarine [[USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635)|USS ''Sam Rayburn'']], launched in 1963 and decommissioned in 1989. * [[Sam Rayburn Reservoir]] in [[East Texas]], constructed beginning in 1956 and renamed after Rayburn in 1963. ** [[Sam Rayburn, Texas]], a census-designated place and unincorporated community named after the reservoir. * [[Sam Rayburn High School]] in [[Pasadena, Texas]], opened in 1964. * [[Sam Rayburn Independent School District]] in [[Ivanhoe, Fannin County, Texas|Ivanhoe, Texas]], established in 1964. * Sam Rayburn Memorial Student Center at [[East Texas A&M University]], built in 1963. New Sam Rayburn Student Center replaced the old center, built in 2009. * Sam Rayburn Intermediate School in Bryan, Texas. * Sam Rayburn Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. * Sam Rayburn Freeway is a portion of U.S. Highway 75 that runs through [[Sherman, Texas]]. * [[Sam Rayburn Tollway]] is a toll road in the [[Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex]] that goes through [[Dallas County, Texas|Dallas]], [[Denton County, Texas|Denton]], and [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]] counties in northeast Texas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sam Rayburn Tollway (SRT)|url=https://www.ntta.org/roadsprojects/existroad/Pages/Sam-Rayburn-Tollway-(Highway-121)-Formerly-Highway-121.aspx|website=North Texas Tollway Authority}}</ref><ref>[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/denton/stories/031709dnmet121tollroad.3ab7c07.html]{{dead link|date=August 2019}}</ref> * Sam Rayburn Memorial Highway, roughly a forty-mile section of Texas State Highway 121 that begins at Texas State Highway 78, two miles north of Bonham, Texas, and ends at its terminus with the Sam Rayburn Tollway in [[McKinney, Texas]]. * Sam Rayburn Elementary School in [[McAllen, Texas]]. * Sam Rayburn Elementary School in [[Grand Prairie, Texas]]. * Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center in Bonham, Texas. * The Rayburn Room, a meeting room at [[The Greenbrier]] in [[White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]]. The Greenbrier contains [[The Greenbrier#The Bunker|the Bunker]] * Sam Rayburn Drive is a portion of Texas State Highway 56 that runs through [[Bonham, Texas]]. * The Rayburn Room, a large reception room at the [[United States Capitol]] where congressmembers can meet with press or receive constituents. It also serves as a holding room for visiting officials attending joint sessions of Congress.<ref name="US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives 2001">{{cite web | title=Rayburn Reception Room | website=US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives | date=September 11, 2001 | url=https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/Capitol/Rayburn-Reception-Room/ | access-date=August 9, 2019}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1985">{{cite web | title=The Rayburn Room | website=The New York Times | date=November 21, 1985 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/21/us/the-rayburn-room.html | access-date=August 9, 2019}}</ref> * Sam Rayburn power station in [[Nursery, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sam Rayburn power station |url=https://www.gem.wiki/Sam_Rayburn_power_station |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Global Energy Monitor |language=en}}</ref>
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