W. B. Bates sitting with a book in hand

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  • University of Houston
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  • W. B. Bates sitting with a book in hand
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  • W. B. Bates sitting and reading a book. He was a regent of the University of Houston from 1943 to 1971. He was an associate, and later partner, at the law firm of Fulbright and Crooker (later Fulbright and Jaworski) until he retired in 1971. Bates was an original trustee of the M. D. Anderson Foundation and its chairman when the founder, Monroe D. Anderson, died in 1939. He was a member of the Houston Board of Education from 1927 to 1935 and was its president from 1932 to 1935. In appreciation of his support, Governor Daniel J. Moody commissioned him an honorary colonel.
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  • 1969-037, Box 1, Folder 55
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  • University of Houston
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  • ark:/84475/do50859f29t