Jack English Hightower

Jack English Hightower

Jack English Hightower (born September 6, 1926 in Memphis , Hall County , Texas , † August 3, 2013 in Austin , Texas) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1975 and 1985 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, Jack Hightower served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946 during the final stages of World War II . After the war he continued his education until 1949 with a study at Baylor University in Waco . After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1951, he began to work in this profession. Between 1951 and 1961, Hightower was a prosecutor in the 46th Judicial District of Texas. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives in 1953 and 1954 . In 1961 he ran unsuccessfully in a by-election for Congress. From 1965 to 1974 he was a member of the Texas Senate . In August 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1974 congressional election , Hightower was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 13th constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Bob Price on January 3, 1975 , whom he had defeated in the election. After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1985 . In 1984 he was defeated by Republican Beau Boulter . Between 1985 and 1987 he was the first assistant attorney general for the state of Texas. In 1988 and from 1992 to 1995 he served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Texas . He was then appointed to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science by President Bill Clinton . He held this mandate between 1999 and 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Texas justice, congressman Hightower dies

Web links

• Jack English Hightower in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)