Robert Ewing Thomason

Personal

Birthday: 
5/30/1879
Birthplace: 
Shelbyville, TN
Date of Death: 
11/8/1973
Place of Death: 
El Paso, TX
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Gainesville, Texas, 1900-1902, 1906-1912
District attorney, Cooke County, Texas, 1902-1906
Private practice, El Paso, Texas, 1912-1931
State representative, Texas, 1917-1921; speaker, 1920-1921
Mayor, El Paso, Texas, 1927-1930
U.S. representative from Texas, 1931-1947

Education

Name of School: 
Southwestern University
Degree: 
B.S.
Degree Year: 
1898
Name of School - Second: 

University of Texas School of Law

Only a large law school devoted to excellence across the range of modern legal education can offer this diversity. UT manages to do so while at the same time offering students intimate settings for study and recreation. The entering class is divided into eight extracurricular Societies, which become hubs of fun and friendship. The first year curriculum includes small classes offering individual attention, and the upper class curriculum is studded with seminars, colloquia, and clinics. Large class or small, good teaching is the norm. Student satisfaction surveys place Texas at or near the top year after year; our teaching track record is seldom matched by any other law school.

Degree - Second: 
LL.B.
Degree Year - Second: 
1900

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Court Name: 

Texas Western District Court

President Nominating: 
Harry S Truman
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
6/5/1947
Retirement from Active Service: 
6/1/1963
Termination Date: 
11/8/1973
Termination Reason: 
Death