Morrison (William A.)

William Arthur Morrison (1909-1980) was born in Cameron, Texas, where his father was an attorney and his mother a teacher. After a year at Texas A&M, he transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a law degree in 1933. That same year he was admitted to the Texas bar, returned to Cameron, and was elected county attorney for Milam County in 1933. In 1934, Gov. Miriam "Ma" Ferguson appointed him district attorney of the Twentieth Judicial District of Texas and 1938 he was elected to the position.

Morrison resigned his position as district attorney in March 1942 to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II. While in the European theatre, he worked as a special agent in counter-intelligence and was at Normandy on D-Day and in Paris on the day of liberation. Following the war Morrison testified in the trials of seventeen Nazi collaborators that each resulted in the death penalty.

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