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1	1	H.C.R. No. 259
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4	4	HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
5	5	WHEREAS, In the year 1929, the era of the "Roaring 20s" came
6	6	to a sudden end, the stock market crashed, and the country slid into
7	7	"The Big Depression"; and
8	8	WHEREAS, James Alford Davis entered this world on November
9	9	14, 1929, the first son of Alford Joseph Davis and Victoria Louise
10	10	Wilhelm Davis; he lived on "The Farm" at the Fritz Wilhelm ranch in
11	11	northwest Menard County until the fourth grade, when the family
12	12	moved to the big city and place of his birth, Menard, Texas; and
13	13	WHEREAS, Mr. Davis graduated from Lutheran Concordia
14	14	College, located in Austin, in the year 1948; it was at Concordia
15	15	that he met his father figure and mentor, George John Beto, a.k.a.
16	16	"Walking George," who was a professor and housemaster; and
17	17	WHEREAS, In 1952, Mr. Davis graduated from the University of
18	18	Houston with a bachelor's degree in business administration and,
19	19	with a strong recommendation from the president of the United
20	20	States of America, he joined the United States Army; and
21	21	WHEREAS, Mr. Davis entered the Bates School of Law at the
22	22	University of Houston in 1956, and five years later he successfully
23	23	passed the bar exam and was authorized to practice law in the State
24	24	of Texas; also in 1956, he and Nancy Helen Hall were joined in holy
25	25	matrimony, and as of this date, they have enjoyed 53 years of wedded
26	26	bliss; as Pappy likes to say, "1956 was a busy year--got married,
27	27	got a job, started law school, and dropped my first kid"; and
28	28	WHEREAS, The union between James Alford Davis and Nancy Helen
29	29	Hall produced five children--William Keith Davis, in 1956, Charles
30	30	Melvin Davis, 1957, John Edward Davis, 1960, Victoria Joanne Davis
31	31	Starr, 1960, and Christopher Lee Davis, 1963; and
32	32	WHEREAS, In the mid-1960s, Mr. Davis moved his family to
33	33	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he worked on the Capline Pipeline
34	34	Project; the family returned to Houston in 1968, and Mr. Davis set
35	35	up his office downtown, at Shell Plaza Two; and
36	36	WHEREAS, In 1991, after 35 years of service, he retired from
37	37	Shell Pipeline, where he was responsible for the company's
38	38	substantial land-related acquisition projects; that same year, he
39	39	and his wife moved back to Menard, and since then he has devoted his
40	40	time to raising goats, sheep, cows, and grandkids at the Dry Creek
41	41	Ranch; and
42	42	WHEREAS, James Alford Davis is celebrating his 80th birthday
43	43	in 2009 with family and lifelong friends at the Menard Country Club
44	44	on the San Saba River; this self-made man has been a successful
45	45	husband, father, grandfather, lawyer, rancher, a voracious reader
46	46	of history, a mentor to many, and the author of In the Eye of a
47	47	Hurricane and In From the Cold, and Mr. Davis wants all to remember
48	48	that "It didn't just happen"; now, therefore, be it
49	49	RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas
50	50	hereby congratulate James Alford Davis on his 80th birthday and
51	51	recognize that, after weathering many life storms and experiencing
52	52	the cold on levels unknown to most men, Mr. Davis has successfully
53	53	emerged from the eye of the storm and has finally come in from the
54	54	cold; and, be it further
55	55	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
56	56	prepared for Mr. Davis as an expression of high regard by the Texas
57	57	House of Representatives and Senate.
58	58	Davis of Harris
59	59	______________________________ ______________________________
60	60	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
61	61	I certify that H.C.R. No. 259 was adopted by the House on May
62	62	28, 2009, by a non-record vote.
63	63	______________________________
64	64	Chief Clerk of the House
65	65	I certify that H.C.R. No. 259 was adopted by the Senate on May
66	66	29, 2009, by a viva-voce vote.
67	67	______________________________
68	68	Secretary of the Senate
69	69	APPROVED: __________________
70	70	Date
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72	72	Governor