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L. J. Wortham
OUIS J. WORTHAM,
equally prominent as a
writer, speaker and
legislator, shows his
preference for the profession
he has followed
with short intermissions through
practically all of his life and designates
himself as a newspaper publisher.
One of the early Texas
newspaper men, equally at home
setting type at the case or
writing editorials, he has been, at
various times, foreign correspondent,
editorial writer and publisher
of the leading papers in the Southwest.
For many years he was a
correspondent for New York papers
at Washington and Mexico City
and later, in 1900, chief editorial
writer of the Houston Post. He
founded the Fort Worth Star with
others and was its editor-in-chief,
becoming vice-president and general
manager of the Fort Worth Publishing
Company and editor-in-chief of
the Star-Telegram upon the consolidation
of the Star and Telegram.
He was also founder and publisher of
the Current Issue. As general manager
of the Texas World's Fair Commission
at St. Louis and as general
manager of the International Fair
Associatidn he has accomplished
much for one of his two hobbies,
the development of Texas resources.
The other, good roads, he has urged
in both his writings and speeches.
He was Captain of River Guards in
co-operation with the State Rangers
and the sheriffs of border counties
in the frontier days; Senator Coke's d 1
private secretary at Washington and
Federal Inspector during Cleveland's
administration, being stationed variously
at Mobile, Laredo, and San
Antonio. He has been given a fourth
term in the legislature as represent- I
ative from Tarrant County. He is
a member of the Elks, the Eagles
and also of the River Crest Country
Club, the Saddle and Sirloin Club,
the Ad Men's Club and Chamber of
Commerce. Col. Wortham is the son
of William B. Wortham, a native of
Columbia, Tennessee, himself a veteran
Texas newspaper man. His
mother, Mrs. Adaline E. Ashcroft
Wortham, was a native of South
Carolina.
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