Richard M. Morehead Papers 1903, 1922-1995

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Greer, Dewitt Carlock

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Although born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dewitt Carlock Greer, 1902-1986, grew up in Pittsburg, Texas. He received a degree in civil engineering from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) in 1923. He worked in a variety of positions, as a landscape engineer, constructing parks, and city engineer, before joining the Texas Highway Department (now the Texas Department Transportation) as an engineer in 1928. At the Highway Department,...

Austin State Hospital.

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Dallas Morning News

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The Dallas Morning News ( DMN ) is a daily newspaper launched by George Bannerman Dealey in Dallas, Texas in 1885. G. B. Dealey’s son and grandson have succeeded him in presidency of the paper’s publisher, the A. H. Belo Corporation. The paper was largely apolitical at the start of the 20th century, but in the early 1920s, it courageously denounced the Ku Klux Klan. Initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the DMN split with the president on domestic policy by his ...

Morehead, Richard M., 1913-2003

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Journalist and author Richard M. Morehead (1913-2003) was born in Plainview, Hale County, Texas to Edward John and Ethel Daily Morehead. After receiving his Bachelor degree in Journalism from the University of Texas in 1935, he worked as a reporter for the United Press International until 1942. Later, Morehead was a correspondent for the Dallas Morning News and retired as bureau chief in 1979. Morehead was also the Texas correspondent for the Southern Education Reporting Service (1954-1968) and ...

Morehead, Richard

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Railroad Commission of Texas

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See the online finding aid for the agency history. From the description of Railroad Commission minutes, 1891-2004. (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). WorldCat record id: 320549398 From the description of Arkansas-White-Red River Basins Inter-Agency records, 1954-1956 bulk 1955 (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). WorldCat record id: 320551070 See online finding aid for agency history. From the description of Railroad Commission ...

Texas Civil Judicial Council

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