Memphis is a city and the county seat of Hall County,Texas,United States. As of the 2010 census,the population was 2,290.
Amarillo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the most populous city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The estimated population of Amarillo was 200,393 as of April 1,2020,comprising nearly half of the population of the panhandle. The Amarillo metropolitan area had an estimated population of 308,297 as of 2020.
Lady Bird Lake is a river-like reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin,Texas,United States. The City of Austin created the reservoir in 1960 as a cooling pond for a new city power plant. The lake,which has a surface area of 416 acres (168 ha),is now used primarily for recreation and flood control. The reservoir is named in honor of former First Lady of the United States Lady Bird Johnson.
Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport is a public airport six miles (10 km) east of downtown Amarillo,in Potter County,Texas,United States. The airport was renamed in 2003 after NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Rick Husband,who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that year.
William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 13th congressional district from 1995 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,Thornberry represented the most Republican district in the United States by partisan voting index. The district covers the Texas Panhandle and stretched between the Oklahoma and New Mexico borders.
Amarillo National Bank (ANB) is a private bank providing commercial banking and personal banking across Texas. It is based in Amarillo,Texas. In 2019,ANB acquired Lubbock National Bank,expanding its locations beyond the Texas Panhandle and into the South Plains and other parts of the state. As ANB,the bank operates 19 branch locations in and around the cities of Amarillo,Borger and Canyon. As Lubbock National Bank,it operates six branch locations in Lubbock. Under the name Commerce National Bank,it operates seven locations in the cities of Bryan,College Station,Fort Worth,and two suburbs of Austin. The bank operates 116 local,branded automatic teller machines (ATMs) in those communities. As of the end of 2019,it claimed to have more than $5.7 billion in assets. ANB employed 695 people as of August 2016.
Kirk Preston Watson is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Austin,Texas since 2023,previously holding the office as the 54th mayor from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,he ran unsuccessfully for Texas Attorney General in the 2002 election,when he was defeated by Republican Greg Abbott,later governor of Texas. In 2006,Watson was elected to the Texas Senate from District 14.
James Albon Mattox was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives and two four-year terms as state attorney general,but lost high-profile races for governor in 1990,the U.S. Senate in 1994,and again as attorney general in 1998. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Kelton Gray Seliger,known as Kel Seliger,is a former Republican member of the Texas State Senate for District 31,which stretches from the Panhandle south to the Permian Basin.
John Marvin Jones was a United States representative from Texas and a Judge of the United States Court of Claims.
William Reynolds Archer Jr. is an American retired lawyer and politician. Archer served two terms,from 1967 to 1971,in the Texas House of Representatives –changing from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1967 –and later represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican for 30 years,from 1971 until 2001,serving for his last six years as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
William E. Moody has served as the presiding judge of the 34th District Court in El Paso since 1986.
James Murray Vickerman was an American politician from Minnesota who served as Minnesota State Senator,first elected in 1986 in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's "firestorm" that swept southwestern Minnesota during the height of the 1980s Midwestern farm crisis. In that election,he unseated incumbent Senator Doran Isackson,winning by a substantial margin. He was re-elected in 1990,1992,1996,2000,2002 and 2006. On February 22,2010,he announced that he would not seek an eighth term,noting that he was doing so "with the satisfaction that when it's done right,our government can and does serve people." His term officially ended on January 3,2011.
William Stanford Heatly,Jr. was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives who served from 1955 to 1983. Known as the "Duke of Paducah",a reference to his hometown of Paducah,the county seat of Cottle County,Heatly wielded significant political power during his tenure in office.
Patrick James Zurek is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He has served as Bishop of Amarillo since February 22,2008. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio from 1998 to 2008.
Douglas S. Wright was an American attorney and politician who was the mayor of Topeka,Kansas and a candidate for the United States Congress. Wright,who served as Mayor of Topeka from 1983 to 1989,was the son of another former Topeka mayor,Chuck Wright,who led the city from 1965 to 1969.
Arthur Louis Schechter is an American diplomat,attorney,and philanthropist.
Paul Harpole is an American politician and businessman who served as the mayor of Amarillo,Texas,the largest city in the Texas Panhandle,from May 2011 to May 2017. He chose not to seek re-election in 2017. Before serving as mayor,Harpole was an Amarillo City Councilmember from May 2005 to May 2007.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Amarillo,Texas,USA.
Eldon Beau Boulter is an American politician. From 1985 to 1989,he served two terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives,representing the 13th district of Texas.
