The guest speaker for our July luncheon meeting is Mr. Tom Martin Davis.  Mr. Davis attended VMI his rat [freshman] year and transferred to the University of Texas receiving a BA degree in 1959.  He then attended UT law school and graduated in 1962 then went with Butler , Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp in Houston from 1962 to 1987, as a trial and labor attorney.  In 1987 he started his own law firm, Davis & Shank, handling law suits only and then he retired from the law practice in 2007.

 

Mr. Davis is a director of the Texas Map Society; a member of the board of trustees of the San Jacinto Museum of History; a member of the board of the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine; and a member of the board of the Houston Chapter of the American Red Cross.

 

Mr. Davis relates that “My grandfather, Dewitt C. Dunn, was a member of The Sons of the Republic of Texas and I will try to find his application to better inform me of the factual basis for the application.  I recall that it told of one of his predecessors supplying the Texian troops with food shortly before the battle of San Jacinto .  My great-great-grandfather, Thomas Hogan, was sheriff of Harris County from 1854-58”.