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Thomas W. Luce III was born in Dallas, Texas, where he was raised by a single mother. [2] He attended public schools in Highland Park Independent School District. [3]He received an athletic scholarship to Virginia Military Institute but transferred to Southern Methodist University where he earned a B.B.A. in 1962 and a J.D. from the Dedman School of Law in 1966.
Map of central Dallas c. 1871. In 1871, railroads were beginning to approach the area and Dallas city leaders did not intend to stand idly and be left out. They paid the Houston and Central Texas Railroad US$5,000 to shift its route 20 miles (32 km) to the west and build its north–south tracks through Dallas, rather than through Corsicana as
John Neely Bryan, looking for a good trading post to serve Native Americans and settlers, first surveyed the Dallas area in 1839. [1] Bryan, who shared Sam Houston's insight into the wisdom of Native American customs, must have realized that Caddo trails he came across intersected at one of the few natural fords for hundreds of kilometers along the wide Trinity floodplain.
Thomas or Tom Luce may refer to: Thomas Luce (MP) (1790–1875), British politician; Captain Thomas Luce (1827–1911), American whaling captain, and founder of Thomas Luce & Company; Thomas W. Luce, III, founding CEO and former chairman of the board of the National Math and Science Initiative and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S ...
Hill-Aiello, Thomas A. "Dallas, Cotton and the Transatlantic Economy, 1885-1956." PhD dissertation U. of Texas, Arlington 2006. 326 pp. DAI 2007 67(9): 3555-A. DA3229563 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur (1998). Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station: University of Texas A&M Press.
As a teenager, Thomas Luce sailed on the ship Roman in 1844 to the northwest coast, and in 1849 he joined the gold rush to California, where he was modestly successful in seeking gold. He returned to New Bedford by 1851, became a naturalized citizen, and married Capt. Luce's daughter, Hannah B. Luce (1832-1879) in 1852.
On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC), Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. The Texas Governor, John B. Connally, was also shot but survived. The episode caused a national outrage focused on right wing elements in Dallas that had long been hostile to Kennedy.
Dallas is the ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. [1] At the 2010 U.S. census, Dallas had a population of 1,197,816. In July 2018, the population estimate of the city of Dallas was 1,345,076, an increase of 147,260 since the 2010 United States Census.