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This is a list of notable people associated with
Marshall, Texas.
This list is incomplete.
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Phillip Baldwin, jurist
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Mike Barber, football player, evangelist
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John Burke, lawyer, soldier, and spy
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Robert Campbell (artist), a painter, poet, and publisher
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Edward Clark, Texas Governor
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Mike Clark, NFL placekicker
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Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party member
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George Dawson, author
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Floyd Dixon, R&B pianist
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Mathew Ector, jurist and legislator
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James Farmer, founder of
CORE, organized freedom rides
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James L. Farmer, Sr., first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
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George Foreman, athlete and entrepreneur
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Joseph C. Goulden, best-selling author and political reporter
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Brea Grant, actress
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Ben Z. Grant, playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
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Homer Hailey,
Church of Christ preacher and author, born in Marshall in 1903
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Sam B. Hall, Jr., former congressman and federal jurist
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Alexander Hawthorn, lawyer, minister, and
C.S. Army general
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James Pinckney Henderson, first governor of Texas
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Susan Howard, actress, writer, activist
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Alphonso Jackson, 13th U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by
President George W. Bush
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Walter P. Lane, Confederate General
- Ken Lattimore, member of the
Western singing group
Sons of the Pioneers (1998-current).
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Opal Lee, Activist promoting the
Juneteenth federal holiday
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Fred T. Long,
Wiley College football coach and athletic director
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Robert W. Loughery, journalist, publisher, and diplomat
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Ashley C. McKinley, aviator; explorer
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Blanche L. McSmith, Alaska state representative, activist, and businesswoman
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Leo Michelson, painter and sculptor
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John T. Mills, Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas
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Johnny Moss, champion poker player
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Bill Moyers, journalist and government official
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Pendleton Murrah, Texas Governor
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Lucy Holcombe Pickens, 19th-century Southern socialite
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William Henry Pope, politician, self-described "
Jim Crow Senator"
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Horace Randal, Confederate brigadier general
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Wendy Russell Reves, fashion model, philanthropist
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Henry Roquemore, 20th-century actor
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Max Sandlin, former congressman and House Minority Whip
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I. B. Scott, Methodist Episcopal cleric, newspaper editor, and educator
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Franklin Barlow Sexton, Confederate Congressman
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Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback
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Kendrick Starling, NFL wide receiver
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James Harper Starr, politician
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Y. A. Tittle,
football Hall of Famer
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Melvin B. Tolson, author, poet, and politician
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Isaac Van Zandt, statesman of both Republic and State of Texas
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James Wheaton, actor
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Peter Whetstone, pioneer leader, city father
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Louis T. Wigfall, U.S. Senator, later Confederate Senator
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Kevin Williams, NFL running back
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Romeo M. Williams, prominent civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in the desegregation of
Marshall, Texas.;
[1] also a
U.S. Army Air Force officer and trained fighter pilot with the
Tuskegee Airmen
[2]
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Bob Young, football player
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