Frank Andrews (June 15, 1864 – December 7, 1936) was the first Assistant
Attorney General of Texas
The Texas attorney general is the chief legal officer of the .
Frank Andrews, son of Rev. Green Lee and Martha Ann (Sellers) Andrews, was born in
Fayetteville, Texas
Fayetteville is a city in Fayette County, Texas. The population was 246 at the 2020 census.
History
The town is located in an area that was originally granted to Alex Thompson and George Cumberland. Fayetteville's first immigrant settlers were ...
. He received a bachelor's degree from
Southwestern University
Southwestern University (Southwestern or SU) is a private liberal arts college in Georgetown, Texas. Formed in 1873 from a revival of collegiate charters granted in 1840, Southwestern is the oldest college or university in Texas. Southwestern o ...
in 1885. He joined the Texas bar in 1887, and served as the first Assistant Attorney General of Texas from 1891-1894.
In 1895 he moved to Houston, Texas to establish a law practice. His major partners over the years included U.S. Congressman
Thomas Henry Ball
Thomas Henry Ball (January 14, 1859 – May 7, 1944) was a Texas politician and a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was mayor of Huntsville, Texas, from 1877 to 1892, and moved to ...
Gulf Coast Lines
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Bankers Trust Company
Bankers Trust was a historic American banking organization. The bank merged with Alex. Brown & Sons in 1997 before being acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. Deutsche Bank sold the Trust and Custody division of Bankers Trust to State Street Corpor ...
and
Union National Bank
Union National Bank (UNB) was a bank based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 1982 until it merged with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank in 2019.
It was established as a Public Joint Stock Company in 1982 became one of the UAE's leading domestic ...
, opened the
Union Station
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in Houston, served as Draft Board Chairman during World War I, won the first two million USD judgement in Texas in a receivership case, represented the Federal National Mortgage Corporation and Reconstruction Finance Corporation as part of FDR's
New Deal
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