Governor Charles A. Culberson

Two episodes the plaque skips show the man. As governor in 1895 Culberson called a special session to make prizefighting a felony after promoters spent a fortune on a Corbett-Fitzsimmons title bout planned for Dallas; the fight was cancelled, and Corbett later called it a grandstand play. In the Senate he grew so ill that critics called him the sick man of the Senate. He never set foot in Texas during his 1916 campaign, and the Handbook of Texas says voters were not told of his illness or drinking. Illness and Klan opposition brought his only defeat, in 1922.

What the plaque says

Governor Charles A. Culberson (June 10, 1855 - March 19, 1925) A native of Alabama, Charles A. Culberson grew up in Jefferson, Texas. He married Sallie Harrison (1861-1926) in 1882 after earning his law degree at the University of Virginia. During two terms as Attorney General of Texas, Culberson enforced the reform policies of Gov. James S. Hogg. He succeeded Hogg as Governor, 1895-99. Culberson served four terms in the United States Senate, winning the post of Democratic Minority Leader in 1907. Renowned for his knowledge of the law, he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1913 to 1919. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 1.3 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 1.3 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 1.8 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 2.2 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

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