Hatton W. Sumners
1875-1962

Member of Congress
1913-1947

Biographical Sketch
From Directory of the United States Congress Online
 

SUMNERS, Hatton William, a Representative from Texas; born near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., May 30, 1875; moved to Garland, Dallas County, Tex., in 1893; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Dallas, Tex.; elected prosecuting attorney of Dallas County in 1900 and served two terms; president of the district and county attorney's association of Texas in 1906 and 1907; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-January 3, 1947); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; retired from public activities; was a resident of Dallas, Tex., until his death there April 19, 1962; interment in Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Garland, Tex.

Bibliography 

DAB; Law, Ron C. ''Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Dallas, Texas: His Life and Congressional Career, 1875-1937." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1990.

Patenaude, Lionel V. "Garner, Sumners, and Connally: The Defeat of the Roosevelt Court Bill in 1937." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 74 (July 1970): 36-51.

Porter, David. "The Battle of the Texas Giants: Hatton Sumners, Sam Rayburn, and the Logan-Walter Bill of 1939." Texana 12 (1973): 349-61.