John Lee Wortham (July 18, 1862 – November 4, 1924) [1] was on the Railroad Commission of Texas in 1911 and Secretary of State of the State of Texas in 1913.
The Railroad Commission of Texas is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry, and surface coal and uranium mining. Despite its name, it ceased regulating railroads in 2005.
Wortham was born in Woodland, Freestone County, Texas. [2] With Gus Wortham he started the John L. Wortham and Son insurance agency. [3] [4] He died in Houston.
Freestone County is a county located in the east central part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,816. Its county seat is Fairfield. The county was created in 1850 and organized the next year.
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated population of 2.312 million in 2017. It is the most populous city in the Southern United States and on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States and the second most populous in Texas after the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA. With a total area of 627 square miles (1,620 km2), Houston is the eighth most expansive city in the United States. It is the largest city in the United States by total area, whose government is similarly not consolidated with that of a county or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the city extend into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.
George Bannerman Dealey was a Dallas, Texas, businessman. Dealey was the long-time publisher of The Dallas Morning News and owner of the A. H. Belo Corporation. Dealey Plaza in Dallas is named in his honor, and became instantly world-famous on Friday, November 22, 1963, when it became the site of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Florence Donald Shapiro is an American politician from Texas, a Republican former member of the Texas Senate. From 1993 to 1995, she represented the 2nd District and from 1995 to 2013, the 8th District, which includes several cities, towns, and other outlying areas of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.
John Joseph Carona is a former Republican member of the Texas Senate from District 16 in Dallas County, Texas.
The Wortham Theater Center is a performing arts center located in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The Wortham Theater Center, designed by Eugene Aubry of Morris Architects, was built out of private funds totaling over $66 Million. The City of Houston owns the building, and the Houston First Corporation operates the facility.
Julien Paul Blitz was an American cellist, conductor, and teacher. He was the first music director of the Houston Symphony.
James Anderson Elkins Sr. was a lawyer and banker in Houston, Texas. He co-founded the law firm, Vinson and Elkins.
American National Insurance Company (ANICO) is a major American insurance corporation based in Galveston, Texas. The company and its subsidiaries operate in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.
Felix Huston Robertson was the only native-born Texan to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. If he is classified as a general despite his temporary appointment being rejected by the Confederate Senate on February 22, 1865, at the time of his death, he would have been the last surviving general of the Confederacy. He was noted for the controversial behavior of his troops at the Battle of Saltville, where scores of wounded black Union cavalrymen were killed in their beds.
The American General Center is a complex of several office buildings in Neartown Houston, Texas located along Allen Parkway. It is owned by AIG American General.
Alfred Horatio Belo was the founder of The Dallas Morning News newspaper in Dallas, Texas, along with business partner George Bannerman Dealey. The company A. H. Belo Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, was named in his honor.
Benjamin N. "Woody" Woodson, born in Altoona, Kansas, was an insurance executive and philanthropist who was known as "Mr. Life Insurance."
Gus Sessions Wortham, was a businessman and civic leader in Houston, Texas.
Hampton Hills is a neighborhood in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas (USA), that was developed in the 1920s. The neighborhood is bounded by Clarendon Drive on the north, Wright Street on the south, Oak Cliff Boulevard on the east and Hampton Road on the west. Established in 1924, Hampton Hills is made up of about 300 wood-frame bungalows, brick and stone Tudor homes and post-war cottages that constitute one of the most undisturbed stands of original architecture in the city of Dallas.
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Edward Musgrove Dealey was a Dallas, Texas, journalist and publisher.
The 2014 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 4, 2014. All of Texas' executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Texas' thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on March 4, 2014. Primary runoffs, required if no candidate wins a majority of the vote, were held on May 27, 2014. Elections were also held for the Texas legislature and proposition 1, seeking funds for Texas highways.
Troy Victor Post was an insurance entrepreneur and executive who formed one of the largest insurance conglomerates in the United States in the early 1960s. In addition to being Chairman and President of his various insurance entities, Post was also Chairman of the Board of Dallas, Texas, based Braniff International Airways and National Car Rental beginning in 1964.
James Roy Dickey, an insurance company executive from Austin, Texas, is the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. He was chosen by the 62-member Republican State Executive Committee meeting in Austin on June 3, 2017, after the resignation of Tom Mechler of Houston, the chairman since 2015. Under Dickey's tenure, the GOP has held all statewide offices in Texas.
Our founder, Gus S. Wortham, had operated a successful insurance agency in Houston in 1915 and had a vision for such a company. With the backing of his father and several prominent business associates, he launched the American General Insurance Company on May 8, 1926, one of the first multi-line insurance companies in the nation.
In 1915 he and his father moved to Houston and co-founded an insurance agency, John L. Wortham and Son.
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