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Texas History Minute advocate general’s office. He served mostly in the Pacific and was honorably discharged as a captain in May 1946.
Dr. Ken Bridges
Immediately upon his discharge, he ran for state attorney general for the July primary. Using his fame from his war record and speakership, he won easily. He worked to defeat organized gambling in the state. His office filed more than 5,000 lawsuits while he worked on dozens of committees and recommended hundreds of pieces of legislation to the state legislature. However, two cases in particular stood out in his time as attorney general.
Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail.com.
In 1947, an African-American post office employee, Heman Sweatt, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. Similarly to cases erupting across the South, though Sweatt was qualified for admission, Price Daniel was one of the few men in Texas History to serve in all segregation kept him from three branches of state government attending because of skin color. – as governor, state legislator, and As attorney general, Daniel had to defend the laws of the state at the state Supreme Court justice. He time and took the case all the way was known for his sense of right to the Supreme Court. The and wrong, but his stands were Supreme Court ruled in 1950 that sometimes controversial. In a Sweatt deserved an equal political career that spanned decades, Daniel became one of the education, and as a result was ordered enrolled in the law school. most well-known figures in the state. The Tidelands Controversy became another explosive issue. Born Marion Price Daniel, Sr., in October 1910, he was the son of a In the late 1940s, Texas was trying rancher. He was born just outside to enforce its mineral rights in the Gulf of Mexico. Federal law the small Southeast Texas community of Dayton and was the claimed that the state had no oldest of three children. He was a jurisdiction in those areas and that any oil leases belonged to the conscientious, hard-working student. As a teenager, he moved federal government. Being an oilrich state, the Texas public took a briefly to Fort Worth, where he strong interest in the case. Daniel graduated high school. argued that Texas had an 11-mile claim dating to its time as an After high school, he enrolled at independent republic. This Baylor University in Waco. To help pay for college, he worked as sparked a sharp controversy with President Harry S. Truman and his a reporter for the former Waco belief that federal law superseded News-Tribune for a time. He any claim Texas might have had. graduated with a law degree in The Supreme Court agreed. 1932 and returned to Liberty County to practice law. As a result of the court fight, in 1952, Daniel refused to back the He quickly became a respected attorney in the area and won fame Democratic presidential nominee, Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, in a series of high-profile local in favor of the Republican cases. He also briefly ran a local nominee, Texas native Gen. newspaper. In 1938, he was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Daniel elected to the State House of Representatives as a Democrat. He also announced his run for the U. served on the Judiciary Committee S. Senate that year to replace the as well as the Oil, Gas, and Mining retiring Sen. Tom Connally. He ran as a “Texas Democrat” in Committee and supported the oil and gas industry. Proposals for a defiance of the Truman state sales tax emerged, and Daniel administration’s stands on the Tidelands issue. Daniel won became part of a group known as the “Immortal 56” in his outspoken easily, as did Eisenhower. In opposition to it. Respected by his 1953, Eisenhower signed a bill sponsored by Daniel to recognize colleagues for his energy and integrity, he was elected Speaker of the Texas claim on the 11-mile limit. The result was that Texas the House for the 1943 session. was able to claim hundreds of The session took place in the midst millions of dollars in the coming of World War II. Though still the years. Speaker of the House, Daniel Price Daniel had risen rapidly in a decided to serve his country in a new way and enlisted in the army short time. Now a U. S. Senator, his prospects seemed limitless. at the end of the session in May And in so many ways, his career 1943. He started as a private but was sent to train as an officer and was only beginning. became a lieutenant in the judge
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Former Howe student involved in British debate BROWNWOOD – September 29, 2017 – Two members of Howard Payne University’s Student Speaker Bureau speech and debate team will publicly debate members of the British National Debate Team on Sunday, October 15, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The exhibition event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Richard and Wanda Jackson Conference Room of HPU’s Paul and Jane Meyer Faith and Life Leadership Center.
Championship and a finalist in junior varsity at the National Christian College Forensics Association national championship. He also achieved a semifinalist finish in individual parliamentary debate at the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association Fall Championship. Olin is a former Howe Eagle Scout and recently received a large Hatton W. Sumners scholarship and is now a Sumners scholar.
HPU juniors Christopher Freeland of Bangs and Tyler Olin of Howe will debate against British team members Rebecca Howarth and Richard Hunter. The topic for the debate is “This house regrets social media.” Tyler Olin, a social science jurisprudence and Guy D. Newman Honors Academy major, is in his second year on HPU’s speech and debate team. He had three years’ experience of team policy debate in high school, placing at the regional qualifiers meet his senior year. In college he has been named an octofinalist at a regional tournament in Texas, a semifinalist at the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association Fall
Tyler Olin
