Background
Kennerly, Thomas Martin was born on January 24, 1874 in Lee County, Texas, United States. Son of Joshua H. and Hannah (Hunton) Kennerly.
Kennerly, Thomas Martin was born on January 24, 1874 in Lee County, Texas, United States. Son of Joshua H. and Hannah (Hunton) Kennerly.
Educational public schools.
He was a Republican. Kennerly read law to enter the bar in 1893. He was in private practice in Giddings, Texas, from 1893 to 1897 and in Houston, Texas, from 1897 to 1931. He was a Referee in Bankruptcy, United States. District Court for the Southern District of Texas from 1903 to 1906.
He was a Special state district judge, Harris County, Texas in 1918.
On January 24, 1931, Kennerly was nominated by President Herbert Hoover to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated by Joseph C. Hutcheson, Junior. Kennerly was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 4, 1931, and received his commission on February 7, 1931.
He assumed senior status on August 29, 1954, serving in that capacity until his death, in 1962. Kennerly"s son, Thomas Everton "T. East." Kennerly, Senior
(1903-2000), a Houston lawyer, was the Republican gubernatorian nominee in 1966.
He was handily defeated by incumbent Governor John B. Connally, Junior. In 1964, T. East. Kennerly ran unsuccessfully for the Texas Supreme Court.
Communion and Water Baptism are symbolic acts of obedience to the teaching of Jesus in the New Testament.
Member American, Texas and Harris County bar associations. Club: Rotary.
Married Evalena Meineke, February 6, 1895. Married second, Lula B. Reynolds, June 27, 1923. Children: Irl F., Thomas East.