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Newsletter # 45, page 6, Winter 2000 Dave Allred: Texas State Representative by: Mirion Cloud (William, William, Renne, William,
Renne, James, William David "Dave") William David "Dave" Allred was a journalist, lawmaker, lawyer and teacher. He was born in Austin, TX. He was the son of Texas Governor James V Allred. Nevertheless, Dave was a self-made man. He started out a journalist and worked for several New York City publications before going to Washington, D. C., where he worked for a Houston newspaper and the Associated Press. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Texas Christian University in 1955. He later received a Master's Degree from Columbia University in New York. He was a working journalist when he went back to Texas where he worked for the Wichita Falls newspaper before he ran for 13th District Representative in 1966, a position he held for 14 consecutive years. As a legislator, he took some law classes at Baylor University, but never graduated. Instead, he petitioned the State Bar under Texas law and was certified as an attorney in 1978. During his 14 years in the Legislature, he was a member of the Health and Welfare Commission, the Committee on Business and Industry, the Committee on Social Services and the Committee on Mental Health and Mental Retardation. A Texas Representative's salary was about $500 a month after taxes when he served. His son, James, said "His constituents got every penny of that out of him." With a published home telephone number, people knew they could call him if they needed help and they did. The only way the family could afford for him to be a Legislator was for his wife, Patricia Lee, to work. She was a teacher. According to his son, James, "He was very honest and very open....He never took lobbyist money....He came out of office like his family came out of office: in debt." He later served four years as Assistant Attorney General under Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox. After 25 years back in Texas, his wife, needed to return to Virginia and take care of her mother. Dave got a job as a journalism professor at Hampton University, Hampton, VA. Dave Allred died September 15, 1996, at the age of 62. Survivors were his wife, a daughter, Rebecca Lee Allred Bartley, and two sons, Stephen David Allred and James Moyer Allred. |
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