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10 Facts About Grover Sellers

1.

Grover Sellers was Attorney General of Texas from 1944 to 1946.

2.

Grover Sellers married his wife Hazel and had two daughters.

3.

Grover Sellers was elected a Delegate to the 1928 Democratic National Convention from Texas.

4.

In 1930, Sellers defeated Justice William Hodges in the Democratic Primary and was elected a Justice of the Sixth Court of Appeals in Texarkana.

5.

Grover Sellers ran for Governor of Texas in the crowded Democratic Primary in 1946.

6.

Grover Sellers lost the primary to Beauford H Jester, coming in third.

7.

In 1964, Grover Sellers was elected as a Delegate to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

8.

Judge Grover Sellers owned and operated one of the early Jersey Herds in Hopkins County on his farm in the Star Ridge Community.

9.

Grover Sellers is considered one of the "moving forces" in bringing the dairy industry to Hopkins County.

10.

Grover Sellers died on August 27,1980, in Sulphur Springs, Texas.