Advocate for Texas

ID: 807 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Lavern "Windy" Drum

This file appears in: William Robert Poage

Poage converses with Texas Representative Jack Woods at a dinner reception. His time in Congress coincided with an era of great influence of Texans in politics.

This file appears in: William Robert Poage

William Robert Poage

By Terri Jo Ryan

For more than 40 years, the seeds planted in Washington, D.C., by McLennan County native Bob Poage reaped rewards in Central Texas. As U.S. representative from Texas' 11th Congressional District — a post he held from Jan. 3, 1937, until his…