R. Ewing Thomason

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R. Ewing Thomason

Robert Ewing Thomason (born May 30, 1879 in Shelbyville , Tennessee , †  November 8, 1973 in El Paso , Texas ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1931 and 1949 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives ; he then became a federal judge in the federal district court for the western district of Texas.

Career

Ewing Thomason attended public schools in Gainesville, Texas, where he had moved with his parents in 1880. He then studied until 1898 at Southwestern University in Georgetown . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Texas at Austin and his admission to the bar in 1900, he began to work in this profession in Gainesville from 1901. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a district attorney in Cooke County . In 1911 he moved to El Paso, where he practiced as a lawyer. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1917 and 1921 he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives , of which he was president in 1920 and 1921. From 1927 to 1930 he was mayor of El Paso.

In the 1930 congressional election , Thomason was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 16th constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Claude Benton Hudspeth on March 4, 1931 . After eight re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on July 31, 1947 . Since 1933 the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there; from 1941 the work of the congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified.

Thomason's resignation came after his appointment as a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas . He held this office as the successor to Charles Albert Boynton until his retirement in June 1963. His seat then fell to Homer Thornberry . He died on November 8, 1973 in El Paso, where he was also buried.

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SURNAME Thomason, R. Ewing
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomason, Robert Ewing (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Shelbyville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1973
Place of death El Paso , Texas