Dudley G. Wooten

Dudley Goodall Wooten (* June 19, 1860 in Springfield, Missouri, † February 7, 1929 in Austin, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood came Dudley Wooten with his parents to Texas. He attended the public schools in the local city of Paris. This was followed up in 1875 to study at Princeton College. He then continued his education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore continues. After studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1880 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Austin in this profession. Between 1884 and 1886, he worked as a prosecutor. Since 1888 he lived and worked in Dallas Wooten. In the years 1890-1892 he was there District Judge. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

From 1898 to 1899 Wooten sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas. In 1900 he served on the board of the National Civic Federation; In 1901 he was a delegate to a national tax conference. Already in 1898 he had participated in a National Anti -Trust Conference in Chicago. After the death of Mr Robert E. Burke Wooten was in the overdue election for the sixth seat of Texas as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 13 July 1901. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1902, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1903.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Wooten moved to Seattle in Washington State, where he practiced law. In his new home he was also repeatedly served as a judge at the Superior Court. In 1912 he took part in the National Rivers and Harbor Congress; the following year he was a delegate to an environmental conference ( National Conservation Congress ). In 1919, Wooten was one of the committee for the definition of the study curricula in his state. Between 1924 and 1928 he held legal lectures at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He died during a visit on February 7, 1929 in Austin and was buried in Seattle.