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He graduated in 1942 as the president of the TAMU senior class.
He graduated in 1942 as the president of the TAMU senior class.
Until his death at the age of ninety three, Hervey had been the oldest living mayor of College Station, the sister city of neighboring Bryan, Texas. The decree was later reversed. Hervey was instrumental in the development of College Station during the 1960s and 1970s through his presidency of Community Savings and Loan.
Hervey was the last surviving of five children of Oney and Elizabeth Hervey.
He was born in Greenville in Hunt County some forty-miles east of Dallas. When the war ended and after a brief period in Dallas, he returned to College Station in 1947 to become the third executive secretary of the Association of Former Students, a position he filled through 1964.
During Hervey"s tenure, the association established its first computerized database, the university archives, and launched the "Distinguished Alumnus Award". Upon leaving the Association of Former Students, he became the president of Community Savings & Loan, where he remained until his retirement in 1982.
He was a member and then president of the College Station Independent School District, which oversees Agricultural and Mechanical Consolidated High School.
Foreign three years he was the mayor of College Station and worked to expand the city. He did not seek reelection in 1974. Hervey died in 2014 in Houston.
He is interred at College Station Cemetery.
On Hervey"s death, the Association of Former Students lowered flags at the alumni center, named for Clayton West. Williams, Junior., to half-staff to honor Hervey for his role in the modernization of the association.