R. Ewing Thomason

Robert Ewing Thomason (* May 30, 1879 in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee; † November 8, 1973 in El Paso, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1931 and 1949 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge.

Career

Ewing Thomason attended the public schools in Gainesville ( Texas), where he had already moved in 1880 with his parents. Then he studied until 1898 at the Southwestern University in Georgetown. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas at Austin and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar in 1901, he began working in Gainesville in this profession. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a prosecutor in Cooke County. In 1911, he moved to El Paso, where he practiced law. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1917 and 1921 he sat as an MP in the Texas House of Representatives, which he was president between 1920 and 1921. From 1927 to 1930 he served as mayor of El Paso.

In the congressional elections of 1930 Thomason was in the 16th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Claude Benton Hudspeth on March 4, 1931. After eight elections he could remain until his resignation on July 31, 1947 in Congress. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt; from 1941, the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

Thomason's resignation was after his appointment as a judge at the Federal District Court for the western part of Texas. This office he held until his retirement. He died on 8 November 1973 in El Paso, where he was also buried.