R. Ewing Thomason

R. Ewing Thomason

Robert Ewing Thomason (30 May 1879, Bedford County, Tennessee – 8 November 1973, El Paso, Texas) was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor of El Paso, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, and a federal district judge.

Partner in a El Paso law firm with Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr., and later J. G. McGrady and Eugene T. Edwards.

Thomason did not normally use his first name and was known as R. Ewing Thomason or Ewing Thomason.

El Paso County Hospital District's Thomason Hospital is named for him.

External links

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* [http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/24/REthomason.htm R. E. Thomason Shaped City, State, Nation] - El Paso Historical Society, the Border Heritage Center
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP.html El Paso County, Texas] - Political Graveyard


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