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| | Handbook of Texas Online: FLEMING, RICHARD TUDOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Richard Tudor Fleming, business executive and collector, was born in Temple, Texas, on April 12, 1890, the son of Richard Tudor and Edna (Griffin) Fleming. |
 | | After graduation from Temple High School he attended the University of Texas, where he lettered as a pole vaulter for the track team, was editor of the yearbook, Cactus, and was one of three originators of the infamous Blunderbuss, an underground newspaper first published on April Fool's Day, 1913, and then published for sixteen years. |
 | | Fleming began his legal career in Houston, where he practiced from 1915 to 1928, with the exception of the years 1917 to 1919, when he served in the United States Army; he rose to the rank of major. |
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