Homer Thornberry
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| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |
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In office July 1, 1965 – December 21, 1978 |
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| Appointed by | Lyndon Johnson |
| Preceded by | Joseph Hutcheson |
| Succeeded by | Reynaldo Garza |
| Judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | |
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In office December 17, 1963 – July 1, 1965 |
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| Appointed by | John Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Ewing Thomason |
| Succeeded by | Jack Roberts |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 10th district |
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In office January 3, 1949 – December 20, 1963 |
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| Preceded by | Lyndon Johnson |
| Succeeded by | JJ Pickle |
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January 9, 1909 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Died |
December 12, 1995 (aged 86) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BBA, LLB) |
William Homer Thornberry (January 9, 1909 – December 12, 1995) was a United States Representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1949 to 1963, and a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Thornberry was born in Austin, Texas. His parents were teachers in the State School for the Deaf and were themselves deaf. He attended public schools in Austin, graduating from Austin High School in 1927. He received a BBA in 1932, and his law degree in 1936 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Acacia Fraternity.
Thornberry served as a Member of the Texas Legislature, a District Attorney in Travis County, Texas, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during World War II and a member of the Austin City Council.
He was elected in 1948 to the 81st Session of the United States Congress as Representative of the 10th Congressional District of Texas. In winning the seat, he replaced its former occupant, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had been elected that year for the first time to the United States Senate. Congressman Thornberry was a member of the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives from January, 1955, until his resignation in 1963, when he was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was then appointed and commissioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson as a United States Circuit Judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1965, where he participated in decisions including many civil rights cases of the 1960s and 1970s.
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