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- As a boy he served as a page in the Virginia
State Senate, under the Honorable John L. Mayre, Lieutenant
Governor and President of the Senate. He was later appointed as
page by the Honorable R.E. Withers, Lieutenant Governor, who
later became a United States Senator.
W.T.‟s health had become impaired, so he spent considerable time after leaving college at certain springs
and health spas in Virginia, while being tutored in Greek and Latin by a graduate of the University of Virginia.
With tuition provided by „Curry & Davis‟ he completed law courses at Richmond Law College in 1876 and
1877. He entered the University of Virginia in 1878, and graduated in 1880.
During the fall of 1880 he moved to Dallas, where he worked for the law firm of Crawford & Crawford
for three years. He became one of four candidates for the position of County Judge in 1884, but lost election
by a slim margin. He ran for City Attorney in 1886, but lost that election as well, by a margin of only thirtyeight
votes. Having failed to establish himself in a political position, he continued his private practice as a
lawyer and member of the Dallas Bar Association.91 He was made Chairman of the Congressional Campaign
Committee of the Sixth District in Texas in 1897.92
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1860 - 1917 (56 years)