Info from a database at Ancestry: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 Biographies W page 2045 "WOOTEN, Dudley Goodall, a Representative from Texas; born near Springfield, Greene County, Mo., June 19, 1860. He moved in infancy with his parents to Texas during the Civil War, then; attended private schools in Paris, Tex. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1875; attended Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Dudley Goodall Wooten was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and was admitted to the bar in 1880 and practiced in Austin, Tex. He served as prosecuting attorney of Austin 1884-1886,, then moved to Dallas, Tex., in 1888; judge of the Dallas County district court 1890-1892; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Cleveland and Stevenson in 1892; member of the State house of representatives in 1898 and 1899; delegate to the National Antitrust Conference at Chicago in 1899; member of the executive council of the National Civic Federation in 1900; delegate to the National Tax Conference at Buffalo in 1901; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert E. Burke and served from July 13, 1901, to March 3, 1903; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902; continued the practice of law in Seattle, Wash.; served as special judge of the superior court at various times; delegate to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in 1912; delegate to the National Conservation Congress in 1913; appointed a member of the State board of higher curricula by the Governor in 1919; author of several historical works and numerous articles in literary and law periodicals; tendered the [p.2045] position of professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., in 1924, and served until his health forced him to take leave of absence in November 1928; died, while on a visit, in Austin, Tex., on February 7, 1929; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Seattle, Wash." _______________________________________ I hope this helps some one. Martha Wooten Solomon