Thus, in the important Shreveport Cases of 1914, Hughes sustained a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission voiding intrastate rates set by the Railroad Commission of Texas.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

Upon the arrival of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad in 1882, other towns such as Greenway, Rector and Piggott experienced growth.

Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Maxine N. ( née Harmon ; 1913 – 1999 ) and Raymond Francis Reynolds ( 1903 – 1986 ), who was a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad .< ref >

Between 1874 and 1910, railroad lines contributed to the county economy and facilitated transportation, including the Texas and Pacific Railway, the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway, the Wichita Falls and Southern, and the Gulf, Texas and Western Railroad.

* 1902 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad line arrives in Travis County.

In 1881, Texas and New Orleans Railroad surveyors reached the site of present day Sanderson.

* 1880 Texas & Pacific Railroad signs an agreement to run tracks through the future city of Abilene.

It is named in honor of John Henninger Reagan ( 1818-1905 ), who served as postmaster general of the Confederate States of America and also as a U. S. Senator, U. S. Representative, and first chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

In 1925 a branch line of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built from near Spofford

Ratcliff Lake, now a United States Department of Interior recreational site, was the millpond for the Four C. The Texas Southeastern Railroad laid track from Lufkin to haul out the lumber.

The Houston and Texas Central Railway and the International – Great Northern Railroad and skirted the county to the west and south in 1870, giving the local economy a boost.

The industry was helped in 1879 when the Texas Central Railroad reached Dublin, and in 1889 when the Fort Worth and Rio Grande was completed through Stephenville.

The Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad reached Lewisville, located in the southern portion of the county, by the early 1880s.

In 1925, the three lines came under the control of the Southern Pacific lines and operated as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.

* The Texas Central Railroad began service in Comanche County in 1885, and began carrying cattle and cotton to market.

The Texas and New Orleans Railroad in 1905, and the Texas State Railroad in 1910 both gave rise to new county towns along their tracks.

The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad built across the southern edge of the county.

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad opened a line from Stevens, Kansas to Dewey, Oklahoma in 1901-2 and another line from Hominy, Oklahoma to Bartlesville in 1903-4.

This changed during the 1880s when the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad – popularly known as the Frisco — built a line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Paris, Texas.

The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Western Railroad ( later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway ) ran between Guthrie and Chandler, Oklahoma, while the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad ran east from Guthrie to Fallis, Oklahoma.

** The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.

Porter's friend Richard Hall became Texas Land Commissioner and offered Porter a job.

* David Lakey, M. D., Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, B. S.

Nebraska, Texas, Texas A & M, and Oklahoma objected to equal sharing, according to former Commissioner Dan Beebe.

At the press conference to announce Texas State's addition, Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson also hinted that more changes could be on the way for the conference.

Texas Commissioner Robert Simpson Neighbors was sent by Governor Peter Hansborough Bell in 1850 to organize El Paso.

Texas Commissioner Robert Simpson Neighbors was sent by Governor Peter Hansborough Bell in 1850 to organize El Paso.

On March 25, 2010, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott announced that he was closing the Kendleton Independent School District.

* David J. Porter ( born 1956 ), the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner in the November 2, 2010, general election, is a CPA in Giddings.

Commissioner Paul S. Atkins of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission considered Federalist Society members " the heirs of James Madison's legacy " in a speech he gave in January 2008 to the Federalist Society Lawyers ' Chapter of Dallas, Texas.

The amount was not adequate for sustaining the total amount of German emigrants in Texas, but Castell also sent Philip Cappes as Special Commissioner to observe the situation.

In 1982, Hightower was elected Agricultural Commissioner, having unseated fellow Democrat Reagan V. Brown, who had ordered a quarantine of fruit coming into Texas from California.

As Agriculture Commissioner, Perry was responsible for promoting the sale of Texas farm produce to other states and foreign nations, and for supervising the calibration of weights and measures, such as gasoline pumps and grocery store scales.

White declined to seek a second term as state attorney general, but chose to seek the governorship in 1982 against fellow Democrat Bob Armstrong, who was the outgoing state Land Commissioner, who vacated the General Land Office following twelve years, and then the incumbent Bill Clements, Texas ' first Republican governor since Reconstruction.

White received 1, 697, 870 votes ( 53. 2 percent ) to Clements ' 1, 465, 537 ( 45. 9 percent ) in a year where Texas Democrats swept all the statewide offices being led by U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen ( who won a third six-year term to the Senate ) and the legendary Lieutenant Governor of Texas William P. Hobby Jr. ( Hobby was first elected lieutenant governor in 1972 ) both of whom carried the Democratic Party's statewide banner which also included the elections of Jim Mattox as state attorney general, Bob Bullock, who won his third term as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts-having been elected in 1974, Ann Richards as state treasurer, Garry Mauro as Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Jim Hightower as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture while Democrats easily maintained their majorities in both houses of the Texas Legislature.

Starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez and Edmond O ' Brien, the film detailed a gang of veteran outlaws on the Texas / Mexico border in 1913 trying to exist within a rapidly approaching modern world.

* Ernest Angelo, Texas oilman and Republican politician, was reared partly in Bogalusa.

* Ernest " Bubba " Bean, graduated from Kirbyville High School in 1971 and was a standout running back at Texas A & M University as well as with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Ernest Wallace ( 1906 – 1985 ), historian of the South Plains, the Comanche Indians, and the State of Texas, was born in Daingerfield.

Ernest Tubb, the country singer, was such a fan that one Texas hotel maintained a supply of Wolf Brand for his visits.

Rauschenberg was born as Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas, the son of Dora Carolina ( née Matson ) and Ernest R. Rauschenberg .< ref >

Hill, Pee Wee Crayton, Harry Choates, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thorton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mance Lipscomb, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, Gene Ramey, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Ella Mae Morse, Charles Brown, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Leon Payne, Tex Ritter, Roger Miller, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Johnny Horton, George Strait, Jim Reeves, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet / Texas Tornados, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Burnett, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Taylor, Lydia Mendoza, Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez Sr., Beto Villa, Narcisco Martinez, Archie Bell & the Drells, Dustin Adams, Johnny Guitar Watson, Yolanda Adams, Ornette Coleman, King Curtis, Mickey Newbury, Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Selena Quintanilla, Pantera, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Sexton, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Johnson and many others.

Ernest " Ernie " Banks ( born January 31, 1931 in Dallas, Texas ), nicknamed " Mr. Cub ", is a retired professional baseball player.

Betty Lynn Buckley was born in Big Spring, Texas and raised in Fort Worth, the daughter of Betty Bob ( née Diltz ), a dancer and journalist, and Ernest Lynn Buckley, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Air Force and former dean of engineering at South Dakota State University.

After Newt Gingrich yanked funding for the group in 1995, Burton joined fellow congressmen John Doolittle of California, Ernest Istook of Oklahoma and Sam Johnson of Texas in refounding it as the Conservative Action Team.

Healy was born Ernest Lea Nash on October 1, 1896 in Houston, Texas, and was known as Lee.

McRose is buried near John Wesley Hardin, and Texas Ranger Ernest St. Leon.

Ernest Angelo, one of three co-chairmen of the 1976 Reagan campaign in Texas and a former mayor of Midland, recalls a trip to Midland by Tower in 1975.

In both elections, his main competition came from Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson, the former mayor of Amarillo.

Harvey Pittel ( born June 22, 1943 ) is an American saxophonist who performs principally in North America, and is currently the Professor of Saxophone at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music in the College of Fine Arts.

Ernest James Istook Jr. ( born February 11, 1950, in Fort Worth, Texas ) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district.

Charisse was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela ( née Norwood ) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweler.

The term " tornado alley " was first used in 1952 by U. S. Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest J. Fawbush ( 1915-1982 ) and Captain Robert C. Miller ( 1920-1998 ) as the title of a research project to study severe weather in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

In 1948, the Texas A & M System was restructured and Dean Ernest H. Hereford was named the first president of the college.

Lasting until 1929 the Contact Editions brought out books by Bryher ( Two Selves ), H. D .' s Palimpsest, Mina Loy's Lunar Baedecker, Ernest Hemingway's first book Three Stories & Ten Poems ( 1923 ), poems by Marsden Hartley, William Carlos Williams ( Spring and All, 1923 ), Emanuel Carnevali's only book during his lifetime ( The Hurried Man ), prose by Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein ( The Making of Americans, 1925 ), Mary Butts ( Ashe of Rings ), John Herrmann ( What Happens ), Edwin Lanham ( Sailors Don't Care ), Robert Coates ( The Eater of Darkness ), Texas schoolteacher Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and Saikaku Ihara's Quaint Tales of Samurais.

The position opened when Governor John B. Connally, Jr., named Speaker Byron M. Tunnell to succeed the retiring Ernest O. Thompson on the Texas Railroad Commission.

Ernest Clayton Walker Jr. was born on August 19, 1969 in Beaumont, Texas to Ernest and Danna Walker.