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Frank W. Wozencraft

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fraternity. His first position was in his father's law office. He worked as an attorney for Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph. At the outbreak of World War I, he organized the Dallas Greys. He transferred to Company B, 144th Infantry,
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and Virginia Lee Wilson. His father had been attorney general of Texas. He married Mary Victoria McReynolds, daughter of Dr. John Oliver McReynolds and Katherine Seay on June 21, 1922, in Dallas, Texas. They had two sons.
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He attended St. Matthew's School for Boys in Dallas, graduated from Dallas High School (1909), and received his B.A. (1913) and LL.B. (1914) degrees from the University of Texas where he became a member of the
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After refusing re-nomination as mayor, he practiced law with the firm of Leake, Henry, Wozencraft & Frank in Dallas. In 1931 he joined
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in New York City as the corporation's legal counsel. He resigned to serve in World War II first as Lt. Colonel and later
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Texas State Board of Health. Bureau of Vital Statistics. Standard Certificate of Death. Frank W. Wozencraft. No. 6382
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Frank Wozencraft died September 3, 1966, in Dallas, Texas, and was interred at the Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas.
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with American-British Combined Communications Board of the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
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Frank Wilson Wozencraft was born on June 7, 1892, in Dallas, Texas, to Gen.
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After the war, he returned to Dallas where he was a partner with former
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and a member of the local, state and American bar associations.
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At age 26, Frank Wozencraft was the youngest individual elected
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Index

Mayor of Dallas
Joe E. Lawther
Sawnie R. Aldredge
Dallas, Texas
Greenwood Cemetery
Democratic
Alma mater
Legion of Merit
Order of the British Empire
United States Army
Captain
Colonel
mayor of Dallas
Alfred Prior Wozencraft
Delta Chi
36th Division
Mayor of Dallas
Radio Corporation of America
Colonel
FCC
Norman S. Case
Washington, D.C.
Freemason
Shriner
Rotarian
Boy Scouts of America
"WOZENCRAFT, FRANK WILSON"
Broadcasting and Broadcast Advertising
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