The year was 1923, when a young man from Bowie Texas was appointed to an unexpired term as district attorney of the Thirtieth Texas District. James V Allred (V was a name, not an initial.), eagerly took this assignment possibly knowing that it would become the foundation of his political career.
His background was that of the average Texan of the time, born: March 29, 1899, in Bowie Texas. He enrolled in Rice Institute now Rice University, in 1917 but withdrew due to financial shortcomings. He served with the United States Immigration Service and then enlisted in the Navy during World War I. After the war, Allred studied law while working as a clerk in a Wichita Falls law office. In 1921, he received an LL.B. from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and began to practice law in Wichita Falls. Two years later he was appointed to the post that would mark the beginning of his successful career as a politician.
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