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J. Waddy Tate
J. Waddy Tate (February 21, 1870 – January 11, 1938) was the mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1929 to 1931. Biography John Waddy Tate was born February 21, 1870, in Columbus, Colorado, Texas, at the Tate-Senftenberg-Brandon House. Tate's parents were local entrepreneur Phocion Tate and Bettie Branch Carter a descendant of William Thornton (Virginia burgess), William Thornton. His father died in 1876 and his mother remarried in 1882 to David T. Davis. Following his mother's second marriage the family removed to Houston, Texas. He married Blanche Kennedy on May 28, 1901, in Laredo, Webb County, Texas."Hot Dog Mayor Dies; Services To Be Thursday." ''The Dallas Morning News.'' January 30, 1938, I-11 As a young man, he worked as a printer and in a sawmill. He joined the Cotton Belt Line in Houston and later the Chicago Great Western Line in Dallas. He retired from the railroad lines in 1919, but by 1920, he was in the oil drilling business. 1920 Dallas County, Texas census. E.D. 4, Sheet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bradford
Thomas Leonard Bradford (February 13, 1869 – August 22, 1932) was Mayor of Dallas, Texas from 1931 until his death by heart attack in 1932. Tom Bradford was born in Port Hudson, Louisiana to the Rev. Harrison Bradford and Elizabeth Shelmire Bradford. Bradford graduated from Centenary College of Louisiana before moving to Dallas in 1887. Bradford opened a grocery store in the Oak Cliff Oak Cliff is a neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, that was formerly a separate town in Dallas County; Dallas annexed Oak Cliff in 1901. It has since retained a distinct neighborhood identity as one of Dallas' older established neighborhoods. Oak C ... neighborhood in 1888. By 1912 Bradford had an ownership interest in six grocery stores, and that year he acquired an interest in Southwestern Life Insurance Company. In 1929, he donated $100,000 to build the Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies, the present Children's Medical Center of Dallas. As the first Dallas mayor elected under the council-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |