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Don Woodard Papers:A Guide
Biographical NoteDon Woodard is a Fort Worth, Texas, native and author of Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company. He and his son Blake are partners in Woodard Insurance. Woodard was in the Navy during World War II. He worked in the oil business in the late 1940s and 1950s when he was assistant to oilman Neville G. Penrose and later a landman with Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company. He was an executive assistant at Texas Electric Service Company until 1972 when he left to enter the life insurance business. Woodard is active in local, state, and national politics. He ran for the state senate in 1964, and in 1982, for mayor of Fort Worth. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsCorrespondence, legal documents. Prominent in this collection are legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit, Homer Tomlinson, et. al. vs. Jack Carter, et. al, Cause 55351A in the 67th District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, and its subsequent appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court. It is Woodard's opinion that this lawsuit, which emanated from a disagreement among party members attending the Texas Democratic convention in Fort Worth, September 14, 1948, ultimately gave rise to the Republican Party as the prominent political force in Texas. Correspondence relates to this litigation and to Woodard's political activities in 1963. Also included are samples of Woodard's prolific letters to the editors of local Fort Worth newspapers on current events and local issues. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccessOpen for research. Literary Rights StatementPermission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationProvenanceGift of Don Woodard, 2011. CitationDon Woodard Papers, 1948-2011, Unprocessed mss. 2011-73, Box Number, Folder Number, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. AcquisitionGift, 2011. Accessioned as number 2011-73. Return to the Table of Contents |
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