Sam Houston Clinton obit (edited)

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Sam Houston Clinton passed away on Tuesday, October 5, 2004, in the company
of family and friends. The son of the late Faye Ramsey and Samuel Houston
Clinton, Sr., he was born and raised in Waco, Texas, where he attended
Baylor University and later Baylor Law School. After law school, Sam served
as an assistant to Congressman W. R. Bob Poague in Washington, D.C., and
worked as a fingerprint examiner for the FBI. He returned to Dallas to join
the prestigious law firm of Mullinax and Wells. Later he moved to Austin, a
city he dearly loved. He proudly served his country in WWII as a naval
aviator, his state as a Judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and
his city as a member of the Historic Landmark Commission. As a Judge, he
served 3 consecutive 6- year terms duly elected as a Democrat. He was a
constitutional scholar and avid historian, happily officing in one historic
building as a member of the law firm Clinton and Richards and happily living
in the first building zoned historic in Austin.