Lee Emmett Thomas

Atlarge members W.H.B. Croon H.H. Huckaby Henry Hunsicker

Thomas was born in Marion in Union Parish north of Ruston, a son of B. B. Thomas and the former of Susan S. George of Perry County, Alabama. Thomas was educated at the former Concord Institute in the community of Shiloh in Union Parish. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baptistaffiliated Samford University, then known as Howard College in Marion, Alabama, but since located in Birmingham, Alabama. Thomas also obtained a Master of Accounts degree, a 14week course, from the defunct Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Thereafter for two years he kept the books in his fathers mercantile business in Farmerville, the parish seat of Union Parish. In 1889, Thomas procured his law degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.

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