Dudley G. Wooten

Dudley Goodall Wooten (born June 19, 1860 in Springfield , Missouri , †  February 7, 1929 in Austin , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dudley Wooten came to Texas with his parents while he was still a child. He attended public schools in the local city of Paris . This was followed by studies at Princeton College until 1875 . He then continued his education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . After studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and being admitted to the bar in 1880, he began to work in this profession in Austin. Between 1884 and 1886 he worked there as a public prosecutor. From 1888 Wooten lived and worked in Dallas . From 1890 to 1892 he was a district judge there. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Wooten was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1898 to 1899 . In 1900 he served on the board of the National Civic Federation ; In 1901 he was a delegate at a national tax conference. In 1898 he had already participated in a national anti-trust conference in Chicago . After the death of MP Robert E. Burke , Wooten was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on July 13, 1901, when the by-election was due for the sixth seat in Texas . Since he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party in 1902, he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1903 .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives ended, Wooten moved to Seattle , Washington state , where he practiced as a lawyer. In his new home he also worked several times as a judge at the Superior Court . In 1912 he took part in the National Rivers and Harbor Congress ; the following year he was a delegate at an environmental conference ( National Conservation Congress ). In 1919, Wooten was a member of the curriculum-setting committee in his state. Between 1924 and 1928 he lectured in law at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana . He died during a visit to Austin on February 7, 1929 and was buried in Seattle.

Web links

• Dudley G. Wooten in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Dudley G. Wooten in the database of Find a Grave (English)