Mayors of Places in Texas - Ernest O. Thompson, Jim Wright, Dean A. Hrbacek, David Sibley, Malouf Abraham, Sr., Kel Seliger, David G. Wallace (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ernest O. Thompson, Jim Wright, Dean A. Hrbacek, David Sibley, Malouf Abraham, Sr., Kel Seliger, David G. Wallace, Gary D. McCaleb, Timothy Dwight Hobart, Don Pierson, Susan Narvaiz, Giles McCrary, Johnny Anders, Kenny Marchant, A. P. Borger, Guy S. Meloy, Jr., Chuck Beatty, Robert Lee Henry, Lewis Owings, Grace Saenz-Lopez, Harley True Burton, Moe Craddock, Tom Martin, Oscar Carrillo, Virginia DuPuy, James A. Thompson, Charles Bilal, Octavio Figueroa, Jr., Hilmar Moore, Rito Silva, Jr., Joe Ochoa, Alexander Calder, Pat Ahumada, Willie Vaden, Dora Alcala, Laura Ward. Excerpt: Ernest Othmer Thompson (March 24, 1892 - June 28, 1966) was a general in the United States Army during World War I, a mayor of Amarillo, Texas, an attorney, a businessman (hotels, office buildings, and oil), and a 32-year member of the Texas Railroad Commission. He was recognized as a world authority on petroleum and natural gas production and conservation. Thompson was also a patron of the arts; his first wife was a Metropolitan Opera singer. Thompson was born to Lewis Oliver Thompson and the former Flora Lee Agnes Murray in Alvord in Wise County in what is now part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. When he was ten years of age, his family moved to Amarillo, where the senior Thompson, operated a drug store. Thompson was already a successful entrepreneur even as a teenager. He graduated from Amarillo High School and attended Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, and later the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a law degree. During the Great War, Thompson became an expert in machine-gun tactics. In the Meuse-Argonne campaign, he worked out a mass machine-gun firing technique and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, having received a battlefield promotion from General John J. Pershing. At twenty-six, he was the youngest lieu...