page_title: List of people from Marshall, Texas
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Marshall, Texas
caption_attribution_description: James Farmer, three-quarter length portrait, speaking before microphones outside Hotel Theresa
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas.
  This list is incomplete.
  Phillip Benjamin Baldwin – jurist
  Mike Barber – football player, evangelist
  John Burke – lawyer, soldier, and spy
  Edward Clark – Texas Governor
  Mike Clark – NFL placekicker
  Kathleen Neal Cleaver – Black Panther Party member
  George Dawson – author
  Floyd Dixon – R&B pianist
  Mathew Ector – jurist and legislator
  James Farmer – founder of CORE, organized freedom rides
  James L. Farmer, Sr. – first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
  George Foreman – athlete and entrepreneur
  Joseph C. Goulden – best-selling author and political reporter
  Brea Grant – actress
  Ben Z. Grant – playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
  Homer Hailey – Church of Christ preacher and author, born in Marshall in 1903
  Sam B. Hall, Jr. – former congressman and federal jurist
  James Pinckney Henderson – first governor of Texas
  Susan Howard – actress, writer, activist
  Alphonso Jackson – 13th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by President George W. Bush
  Walter P. Lane – Confederate General
  Fred T. Long – Wiley College football coach and athletic director
  Robert W. Loughery – journalist, publisher, and diplomat
context_section_description: This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas.
  This list is incomplete. 
  Phillip Benjamin Baldwin – jurist
  Mike Barber – football player, evangelist
  John Burke – lawyer, soldier, and spy
  Edward Clark – Texas Governor
  Mike Clark – NFL placekicker
  Kathleen Neal Cleaver – Black Panther Party member
  George Dawson – author
  Floyd Dixon – R&B pianist
  Mathew Ector – jurist and legislator
  James Farmer – founder of CORE, organized freedom rides
  James L. Farmer, Sr. – first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
  George Foreman – athlete and entrepreneur
  Joseph C. Goulden – best-selling author and political reporter
  Brea Grant – actress
  Ben Z. Grant – playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
  Homer Hailey – Church of Christ preacher and author, born in Marshall in 1903
  Sam B. Hall, Jr. – former congressman and federal jurist
  James Pinckney Henderson – first governor of Texas
  Susan Howard – actress, writer, activist
  Alphonso Jackson – 13th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by President George W. Bush
  Walter P. Lane – Confederate General
  Fred T. Long – Wiley College football coach and athletic director
  Robert W. Loughery – journalist, publisher, and diplomat
  Ashley C. McKinley – aviator; explorer
  Leo Michelson – painter and sculptor
  John T. Mills – Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas
  Johnny Moss – champion poker player
  Bill Moyers – journalist and government official
  Pendleton Murrah – Texas Governor
  Lucy Holcombe Pickens – 19th-century Southern socialite
  William Henry Pope – politician, self-described "Jim Crow Senator"
  Horace Randal – Confederate brigadier general
  Wendy Russell Reves – fashion model, philanthropist
  Henry Roquemore – 20th-century actor
  Max Sandlin – former congressman and House Minority Whip
  I. B. Scott – Methodist Episcopal cleric, newspaper editor, and educator
  Franklin Barlow Sexton – Confederate Congressman
  Terrance Shaw – NFL cornerback
  Kendrick Starling — NFL wide receiver
  James Harper Starr – politician
  Y. A. Tittle – football Hall of Famer
  Melvin B. Tolson – author, poet, and politician
  Isaac Van Zandt – statesman of both Republic and State of Texas
  James Wheaton – actor
  Peter Whetstone – pioneer leader, city father
  Louis T. Wigfall – U.S. Senator, later Confederate Senator
  Kevin Williams – NFL running back
  Bob Young – football player
  <--This list is alphabetical, please make sure new additions are in the correct place.-->
caption: James Farmer
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