Paschal, Thomas M
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1845, in Alexandria, La. He moved to Brackett, Texas, in 1873, and practiced law till 1875, when elected judge of the twenty-fourth judicial district, to which position he was re-elected in 1880 and 1884. In 1876 he was appointed agent between the United States and Mexico, and was reappointed in 1880. In 1875 he returned to Castroville and was elected judge of the thirty-eighth judicial district in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
PASCHALL, GEORGE WASHINGTON, lawyer, jurist, educator, author, was born Nov. 23, 1812, in Skull Shoals, Ga. He was a jurist of Texas, and later of Washington, where he was professor of jurisprudence in Georgetown college. He was the author of Annotated Digest of Texas Laws; Decisions of Texas Supreme Court; and Annotated Constitution of the United States. He died Feb. 16, 1878, in Washington, D. C.