Brooks, Victor Lee Papers, 1908-1927

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Brooks, Victor Lee

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Victor Lee Brooks was born in Rutledge, Alabama, in 1870. He practiced law then taught at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, 1895-1896. From 1898 to 1903 he was an Austin city attorney where he and Mayor Emmett White were credited with saving the city from bankruptcy after the Austin Dam broke in 1900. Brooks was appointed judge of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District in 1903. His best-known case was an antitrust suit brought against the Waters-Pierce Oil Compan...

Burleson, Albert Sidney, 1863-1937

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Burleson (1863-1937) graduated from the University of Texas Law Department in its first class (1884). As postmaster general he expanded parcel post and was responsible for the government takeover of telephone, telegraph, and cable during World War I and the initiation of air mail in 1918 at the end of the war. From the description of Burleson, Albert Sidney, papers, 1841-1946. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20659759 U.S. representative from Texas and U....

Batts, R. L. (Robert Lynn), 1864-1935

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Robert Lynn Batts (1864-1935) was born on November 1, 1864 in Bastrop, Texas. In 1886, he received an LL.B. from University of Texas and went into private practice from 1886-1891. From 1891-1893, he was an assistant state attorney general of Texas and then a law professor at the University of Texas in Austin from 1893 to 1900. After returning to private practice from 1900-1917, Batts was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to be a federal judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fif...

Brooks, Victor Lee, 1870-1925

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Dabney, Lewis M.

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Waters-Pierce Oil Company

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Green, William Spotswood, 1847-

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Brooks, Henry

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B. T. Babbitt (Firm)

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Arnold, Ralph, 1875-1961

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Ralph Arnold was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, on April 14, 1875. His father, Delos Arnold, was a lawyer and Iowa state senator who became interested in the study of fossils after the discovery of crinoids fossils in LeGrand, Iowa. The Arnolds moved to Pasadena, California, in 1886, and Ralph attended both Pasadena High School and Throop Polytechnic School (now Cal Tech) before receiving his B.A. in geology and mining from Stanford in 1899. He continued at Stanford to complete his M.A. (1900) and ...