The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-01-22
and was admitted to the oAr
in 1874. After four Neara

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successful practice, he was elected
county attorney of Wood county, and
, after filling that position two yesTs
was elected district attorney for she
Seventh Judicial district, which po-
sition he held four years. He wss
nominated by the Democratic state
convention of 1886 for attorney gem
eral and was elected in November OF
that year. In 1858 he WIS renomi-
mated and reelected to the same
Office and at the Democratic state
convention at San Antonio, August,
1890, was nominated for governor on
the first ballot, amid the widest an
thusiasm, having swept all oppoHiion
from the field long before the assenb-
ling of that body. He is now before
the people as their governor. W
EX-LlEUT. GOV. T. B. WHEELER
1t is pleasant to read the biography
OF man of high character like the
subject Of this sketch.
He was born in Marshall county
Alabama, June Z, 1910. Ex-Lieur.
Gov. L. B. Wheeler has made his own
character and il is formed of such
mettle as basis oil foundation thak
just, equitable and honorable, hB
moves through life without fear of re-
rroach and cheered by the confidence
OF his contemporaries.
His youth was spent in hard man
ual labor to aid in the support OF his
widowed mother and with the addi--
tional object of accumulating enough
money to obtain an education. After
acquiring an education he taught
school. then studied law and in 1887
was admitted to the bar, and in the
same year was elected county attor-
ney for Travis county, and since that
date has rapidly climbed the LADDER
of fame. He was elected Mayor OF
the city of Austin in 1872 and served
until 1877 when he resigned his may
orslty in order to enter more fully
into the practice of law.
In 1880 he was elected district judge
of the twelfth judicial district and
served to the entire satisfaction of the
people until 1886, when he was nomi-
mated by the democratic convention
and was elected lieutenant governor
of the state of Texas, and was nomi-
mated and reelected in 1883.
He is man loved by all who know
him and has probably the best record
of any public man in the state in the
way of victories, having never been
defeated for an Office until ne ran for
governor, and then it was no personal
fault OF the man, but the strong fghs
he made against the commission.
Ex-Governor Wheeler's highest ql,al--
tiles, while manifested by his daily life
are not given full scope in public, and
that is his moral and sympathetic ma
ture. He has q heart as tender 40 a
child's when distress is in sight. The
poor of Austin will ever remember him
as kind and generous benefactors
No man retiring from the public's
service will be spoken of more highly
than Governor Wheeler.
GEORGE CAsrrY PENDLEToN.
George Casity Pendleten, the newly
inaugurated lieutenant-governor Of
Texas, was born April %, 1845, il,
Coffee county, Tennessee. Mrs
Sarah Pendleton, his mother, was the
daughter of Gen. William Smart, y
soldier of the war of 1912. The entire
family came TO Texas in 1857 and set
tied in Ellis county when he wa9
twelve years of age. The ambition 81
his early life was to secure collegiate
education and practice law. The war
between the states first interfered
with these plans. He entered the
confederate army and served until the
close of the struggle in the Trans
Mississippi department as trooper
in the Nineteenth Texas cavalry, Col.
B. w. Watson's regiment. Returning
home after the close OF the war he en-
tered college at Waxahachie, intend
ing to graduate and then gain adj
mission to the bar; but i'll health this
time forced him to abandon his pur,
pose and seek some employment that
would furnish out of doors exercise,
and for ten years he was commercial
traveller. He has been engaged in
country merchandising, farming aud
stock raising, and met with gratifying
success in q financial way. His POI
litical career began with his election
to represent Bell county in the Eigh-
teenth Legislature. He was reelected
to the Nineteenth and Twentieth
legislatures, and was chosen speaker
of the House in the latter session
without opposition. He made fus
presiding officer, and will no doubt
conduct the deliberations of the SEN
ate in manner highly cIe Iitable 20
himself and satisfactory 70 that grave
and reverend body.