Background
Burges, William Henry was born on November 12, 1867 in Seguin, Texas, United States. Son of William Henry and Bettie (Rust) Burges.
Burges, William Henry was born on November 12, 1867 in Seguin, Texas, United States. Son of William Henry and Bettie (Rust) Burges.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Texas, 1889.
Admitted to bar, 1889. City attorney, El Paso Texas, 1893-1895. Member firm Turney & Burges, El Paso, Texas, 1897-1917, of Gregory, Burges & McNab, Chicago, March 1917-November 1918, of Turney, Burges, Culwell & Pollard, El Paso, Texas, 1918-1938, Burges, Burges & Scott, El Paso, 1938-1940, Burges, Burges, Scott, Rasberry & Hulse since 1941.
Chief counsel, all copper companies and other defendants in civil and criminal cases arising out of deportation of I.W.W.’s from Bisbee, Arizona, 1917.
Special assistant to United State Attorneys general in charge postal fraud prosecutions, Northern District Texas, 1924. Regent University of Texas, 1911-1914.
Member American Bar Association (Executive Committee 1912-1915), Texas Bar Association (president 1909-1910), Phi Beta Kappa, Order of Coif.
Married Anna Pollard, September 23, 1896.