• as Texas Attorney General from 1957 to 1963, Will Wilson cracked down on prostitution rings operating in such Texan cities as Galveston, Beaumont, Texarkana and Victoria?

Facts on topics related to Beaumont, Texas

Amarillo, Texas

• Texas produces the most helium in the United States, all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo?
• a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?
• author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
• on the debut episode of Man v. Food, host Adam Richman completed the 72-ounce (2 kg) Big Texan challenge at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas?

Fort Worth, Texas

• Margaret Formby, the daughter of Texas ranchers, was the founder of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth?
• in 1984, Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on) Biosphere 2, to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling Mars?
• the historian of the American West Herbert H. Lang researched a study of the role of Fort Worth, Texas, in the origins of the modern helium industry?
• the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle?

Brownsville, Texas

• a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland" museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville, Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley?

Lubbock, Texas

• Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
• Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes?
• Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes, a Lubbock, Texas, radio talk show host, and a colleague, Bud Andrews, produced the first albums of the country comedian Jerry Clower?
• Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
• J.T. Alley, police chief of Lubbock, Texas, vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes?
• Kevin O'Brien, an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City?
• Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
• Virgil Johnson, the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets, retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas?
• the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?

Dallas

• John McClannahan Crockett was the second mayor of Dallas, and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863?
• the Comerica Bank New Year's Parade, originally held for the Cotton Bowl Classic, is still held annually in Dallas even though the Cotton Bowl has moved to Arlington, Texas?