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James Mitchell Collins was an American businessman and a Republican who represented the Third Congressional District of Texas from 1968-1983. The district was based at the time around Irving in Dallas County.
James Anderson Elkins Sr. was a lawyer and banker in Houston,Texas. He co-founded the law firm,Vinson &Elkins.
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Rufus Columbus Burleson was the president of Baylor University in Waco,Texas,from 1851 to 1861 and again from 1886 to 1897.
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George Peddy was an American attorney,military officer,and political figure from Texas. A 1920 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law,he practiced law in Houston with the prominent firm of Vinson,Elkins,Weems,and Francis. A Democrat,He served in the Texas House of Representatives in 1917 and ran two high-profile but unsuccessful campaigns for the United States Senate. A United States Army veteran of World War I and World War II,he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel while serving with the 5th Infantry Division in France during the Second World War,and received the Bronze Star Medal and Croix de Guerre.
Sam Houston Jr. (1843–1894) was the oldest of eight children born to Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston,and was the only Houston child born in the Republic of Texas,before its December 29,1845 annexation to the United States. He was home-schooled by his mother,and later attended both Bastrop Military Institute and Baylor University. After Texas seceded from the Union in 1861,he enlisted in the Confederate States Army 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment,Company C Bayland Guards. Wounded at the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh,he served time as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas in Illinois. Following his release,he received a medical discharge from the Confederate States Army. He attended the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery. Upon graduation,he returned to a private life,and it is unknown if he ever practiced medicine. At some point,he became a writer. Houston married Lucy Anderson in 1875. Their daughter Margaret Bell Houston (1877–1966) was also a writer,as well as a suffragist who became the first president of the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association. Upon his death,Sam Jr. was buried on private property near his mother.