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7 unusual facts about Dallas County


Bonnie and Clyde: Dead and Alive

Austin Hebert as Ted Hinton, Dallas County, Texas, Deputy Sheriff and posse member of Bonnie and Clyde's capture

Dallas County, Alabama

Shwetak Patel, (1981-), from Alabama, was born in Selma and went on to become a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and invent a number of new sensing technologies.

Edwin F. Beckenbach

Edwin Ford Beckenbach (18 July 1906, Oak Cliff, Dallas County, Texas – 5 September 1982, Syracuse, New York) was an American mathematician.

John Carona

First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County.

Martin W. Littleton

He was prosecuting attorney of Dallas County from 1893 to 1896, and in the latter year moved to New York City and continued the practice of his profession.

Pierre Pierce

In August 2005, he reached a plea bargain and pled guilty to third-degree burglary, assault with an intent to commit sexual abuse, false imprisonment, and fourth-degree criminal mischief in Dallas County District Court.

Sand Branch, Texas

Sand Branch, Dallas County, Texas, an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Texas


Dallas Country Club

Dallas Country Club is a country club located in the town of Highland Park in Dallas County, Texas.

Jim Keffer

Keffer's younger brother, William R. "Bill" Keffer, a Dallas lawyer who was born in Upton County in 1958, was from 2003 to 2007 a member of the Texas House from District 107 in the Lake Highlands section of northern Dallas County.

Stop Her Now

The major donors (62 percent) to this PAC are energy trader T. Boone Pickens, who funded the Swift Boat campaign in 2004 against John Kerry as well as the Progress for America Voter Fund PAC and the Straight Talk America PAC, with homebuilder Bob Perry, investor Harold Clark Simmons, and Richard Collins, a Dallas County, Texas newspaper publisher; totaling over $10 million.

Tony Watson

Watson attended Dallas Center Grimes High School in Grimes, Iowa.

Turtle Creek Boulevard

Turtle Creek Boulevard is a thoroughfare that runs through the Turtle Creek neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas (USA), generally alongside the actual Turtle Creek.

William S. Heatly

He was succeeded by the Republican Anita Dorcas Hill (1928–2003) of Garland in Dallas County, in a renumbered and fully reconstituted district.

Zirc Abbey

By 1956, however, a small group of these Hungarian Cistercians left Wisconsin to found Our Lady of Dallas in Irving, Dallas County, Texas.


see also

Bogue Chitto

Bogue Chitto, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama

Dallas County High School

Dallas County High School is a public high school in Plantersville, Alabama, United States.

James S. Rains

He died on May 19, 1880 at his home and is buried at Lee Cemetery in Seagoville, Dallas County.

Jerry Birdwell

Jerry R. Birdwell was the former mayor of South Lake Tahoe, California and judge of Dallas County's 195th Judicial District Court.

Jordan Creek Town Center

In May 2007, Iowa State University economists David Swenson and Liesl Eathington released a study showing that retail sales in the Dallas County portion of West Des Moines had increased by over $310 million, or 503.7 percent, during Jordan Creek's first two years of operation.

Luminant

Also in August the Dallas County Medical Society announced that it would petition the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to crack down on Luminant and its three Texas power plants - Big Brown, Martin Lake and Monticello.