Robert Randolph Casey

U.S. Congressman. As a young man, he moved to Texas, in 1930, was a student at the University of Houston, also the South Texas School of Law, (1934-40) was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Alvin, Texas. He served as City Attorney of Alvin, (1942-43), a member of the school board, in 1943 and was assistant district attorney of Harris County, in charge of the civil department, in 1948. He was judge of Harris County, (1950-54), a member of board of regents of the South Texas College of Law, on the board of directors of the Speech and Hearing Center and director of the South Texas Law Journal. In 1959, he was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress and to the next eight succeeding Congresses, serving until his resignation in 1976. He then was appointed by President Gerald Ford, a Commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission. He later returned to the practice of law until his death at age 70.