Homer Thornberry

William Homer Thornberry ( born January 9, 1909 in Austin, Texas, † December 12, 1995 ) was an American politician. He represented the state of Texas as a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Homer Thornberrys parents were teachers at a school for the deaf, where they were deaf. He attended public school in Austin and graduated in 1927 at the Austin High School. In 1932 he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1936 and his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Thornberry was a member of the Texas House of Representatives, district attorney in Travis County, during the Second World War, Lieutenant Commander (Lieutenant Commander) in the United States Navy and a member of the City Council of Austin.

In 1948 he was elected as a Democratic representative of the Tenth Congressional District of Texas in the 81st Congress. He was on 3 January 1955 until his resignation in 1963 a member of the Committee on Rules. During his tenure in Congress, he refused to sign the Southern Manifesto, which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions. He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy in the office of a federal district judge for the western part of Texas. After certain and authorized him President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 a judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth District Court, where he was involved in many civil law judgments of the 1960s and 1970s.

Thornberry was nominated for Abe Fortas ' seat on the Supreme Court by Lyndon B. Johnson when Johnson Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice ( Chief Justice ) called. However Fortas withdrew his nomination in October 1968, so that Thornberrys nomination was questionable and was eventually withdrawn by the White House.

Homer Thornberry died December 12, 1995 at her home two days later and was buried at the Texas State Cemetery.