From the Texas State Historical Association:
CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON (1877–1950). Rentfro Banton (Rene B.) Creager, Republican party leader, was born at Waco, Texas, on March 11, 1877, son of Francis Asbury Warwick and Katherine (Rentfro) Creager. In 1898 he received a B.S. degree from Southwestern University, where he was awarded an LL.D. in 1930. After graduation from the law school of the University of Texas in Austin in 1900, he began practice in Brownsville. Before 1916, when he became the gubernatorial candidate of the Republican party in Texas, Creager served as a collector of customs at Brownsville under presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. Upon the death of Henry F. MacGregor of Houston in 1923, Creager was elected the Texas member of the Republican National Committee, a position he held until his death. He retained a firm leadership in the state Republican party and played a prominent role in national Republican politics for many years. At the Republican national convention of 1920 he delivered the only speech seconding the nomination of Warren G. Harding. After Harding's election, the president-elect and Mrs. Harding visited Creager at his home in Brownsville. The presidential party also fished at nearby Port Isabel. Creager was offered the post of ambassador to Mexico by both President Harding and President Calvin Coolidge, but declined. He was the first national committeeman to come out in support of Herbert Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination. Likewise, he was in the forefront of the movement to secure the 1936 nomination for Kansas governor Alfred Landon. Creager was a close friend of and floor leader for Senator Robert A. Taft at the Republican national convention of 1948. In addition to his political activities, he was president of an oil company. He died on October 28, 1950, in Brownsville. He was survived by four children and his widow, the former Alice Terrell, whom he had married on February 3, 1904.
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CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON
In a review of the prominent members of the southern Texas bar the name of Rentfro Banton Creager, a lawyer of Brownsville, occupies a foremost place. He has also made a splendid record as the collector of customs for the Brazos de Santiago district, and he was during two terms United States commissioner for the southern district of Texas.
Mr. Creager was born in Waco, Texas, March 11, 1877. father, Frank A. Creager, born in Maryland, came to Texas in 1859. He located first at Huntsville, and he is now deputy clerk for the United States courts in Brownsville. His mother, Kate (Rentfro) Creager, is a native daughter of Texas. The son Rentfro attended the public schools of Brownsville, and then matriculating in the Southwestern University at Georgetown he graduated therefrom in 1898 with the degree of B. S. He next became a student in the law department of the University of Texas, graduating with its law class of 1900 and with the degree of LL. B. In 1900 he began the practice of his chosen profession in Brownsville, and he has remained here throughout his professional career, winning in the meantime a high place at its bar.
Mr. Creager married in 1904 Elizabeth Alice Terrell, a daughter of John L. Terrell, of Terrell, Texas. Their two children are Katherine N. and Elizabeth A. The family are members of the Episcopal church. Historical Review of South-East Texas, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON (1877–1950). Rentfro Banton (Rene B.) Creager, Republican party leader, was born at Waco, Texas, on March 11, 1877, son of Francis Asbury Warwick and Katherine (Rentfro) Creager. In 1898 he received a B.S. degree from Southwestern University, where he was awarded an LL.D. in 1930. After graduation from the law school of the University of Texas in Austin in 1900, he began practice in Brownsville. Before 1916, when he became the gubernatorial candidate of the Republican party in Texas, Creager served as a collector of customs at Brownsville under presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. Upon the death of Henry F. MacGregor of Houston in 1923, Creager was elected the Texas member of the Republican National Committee, a position he held until his death. He retained a firm leadership in the state Republican party and played a prominent role in national Republican politics for many years. At the Republican national convention of 1920 he delivered the only speech seconding the nomination of Warren G. Harding. After Harding's election, the president-elect and Mrs. Harding visited Creager at his home in Brownsville. The presidential party also fished at nearby Port Isabel. Creager was offered the post of ambassador to Mexico by both President Harding and President Calvin Coolidge, but declined. He was the first national committeeman to come out in support of Herbert Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination. Likewise, he was in the forefront of the movement to secure the 1936 nomination for Kansas governor Alfred Landon. Creager was a close friend of and floor leader for Senator Robert A. Taft at the Republican national convention of 1948. In addition to his political activities, he was president of an oil company. He died on October 28, 1950, in Brownsville. He was survived by four children and his widow, the former Alice Terrell, whom he had married on February 3, 1904.
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CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON
In a review of the prominent members of the southern Texas bar the name of Rentfro Banton Creager, a lawyer of Brownsville, occupies a foremost place. He has also made a splendid record as the collector of customs for the Brazos de Santiago district, and he was during two terms United States commissioner for the southern district of Texas.
Mr. Creager was born in Waco, Texas, March 11, 1877. father, Frank A. Creager, born in Maryland, came to Texas in 1859. He located first at Huntsville, and he is now deputy clerk for the United States courts in Brownsville. His mother, Kate (Rentfro) Creager, is a native daughter of Texas. The son Rentfro attended the public schools of Brownsville, and then matriculating in the Southwestern University at Georgetown he graduated therefrom in 1898 with the degree of B. S. He next became a student in the law department of the University of Texas, graduating with its law class of 1900 and with the degree of LL. B. In 1900 he began the practice of his chosen profession in Brownsville, and he has remained here throughout his professional career, winning in the meantime a high place at its bar.
Mr. Creager married in 1904 Elizabeth Alice Terrell, a daughter of John L. Terrell, of Terrell, Texas. Their two children are Katherine N. and Elizabeth A. The family are members of the Episcopal church. Historical Review of South-East Texas, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
From the Texas State Historical Association:
CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON (1877–1950). Rentfro Banton (Rene B.) Creager, Republican party leader, was born at Waco, Texas, on March 11, 1877, son of Francis Asbury Warwick and Katherine (Rentfro) Creager. In 1898 he received a B.S. degree from Southwestern University, where he was awarded an LL.D. in 1930. After graduation from the law school of the University of Texas in Austin in 1900, he began practice in Brownsville. Before 1916, when he became the gubernatorial candidate of the Republican party in Texas, Creager served as a collector of customs at Brownsville under presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. Upon the death of Henry F. MacGregor of Houston in 1923, Creager was elected the Texas member of the Republican National Committee, a position he held until his death. He retained a firm leadership in the state Republican party and played a prominent role in national Republican politics for many years. At the Republican national convention of 1920 he delivered the only speech seconding the nomination of Warren G. Harding. After Harding's election, the president-elect and Mrs. Harding visited Creager at his home in Brownsville. The presidential party also fished at nearby Port Isabel. Creager was offered the post of ambassador to Mexico by both President Harding and President Calvin Coolidge, but declined. He was the first national committeeman to come out in support of Herbert Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination. Likewise, he was in the forefront of the movement to secure the 1936 nomination for Kansas governor Alfred Landon. Creager was a close friend of and floor leader for Senator Robert A. Taft at the Republican national convention of 1948. In addition to his political activities, he was president of an oil company. He died on October 28, 1950, in Brownsville. He was survived by four children and his widow, the former Alice Terrell, whom he had married on February 3, 1904.
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CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON
In a review of the prominent members of the southern Texas bar the name of Rentfro Banton Creager, a lawyer of Brownsville, occupies a foremost place. He has also made a splendid record as the collector of customs for the Brazos de Santiago district, and he was during two terms United States commissioner for the southern district of Texas.
Mr. Creager was born in Waco, Texas, March 11, 1877. father, Frank A. Creager, born in Maryland, came to Texas in 1859. He located first at Huntsville, and he is now deputy clerk for the United States courts in Brownsville. His mother, Kate (Rentfro) Creager, is a native daughter of Texas. The son Rentfro attended the public schools of Brownsville, and then matriculating in the Southwestern University at Georgetown he graduated therefrom in 1898 with the degree of B. S. He next became a student in the law department of the University of Texas, graduating with its law class of 1900 and with the degree of LL. B. In 1900 he began the practice of his chosen profession in Brownsville, and he has remained here throughout his professional career, winning in the meantime a high place at its bar.
Mr. Creager married in 1904 Elizabeth Alice Terrell, a daughter of John L. Terrell, of Terrell, Texas. Their two children are Katherine N. and Elizabeth A. The family are members of the Episcopal church. Historical Review of South-East Texas, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON (1877–1950). Rentfro Banton (Rene B.) Creager, Republican party leader, was born at Waco, Texas, on March 11, 1877, son of Francis Asbury Warwick and Katherine (Rentfro) Creager. In 1898 he received a B.S. degree from Southwestern University, where he was awarded an LL.D. in 1930. After graduation from the law school of the University of Texas in Austin in 1900, he began practice in Brownsville. Before 1916, when he became the gubernatorial candidate of the Republican party in Texas, Creager served as a collector of customs at Brownsville under presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. Upon the death of Henry F. MacGregor of Houston in 1923, Creager was elected the Texas member of the Republican National Committee, a position he held until his death. He retained a firm leadership in the state Republican party and played a prominent role in national Republican politics for many years. At the Republican national convention of 1920 he delivered the only speech seconding the nomination of Warren G. Harding. After Harding's election, the president-elect and Mrs. Harding visited Creager at his home in Brownsville. The presidential party also fished at nearby Port Isabel. Creager was offered the post of ambassador to Mexico by both President Harding and President Calvin Coolidge, but declined. He was the first national committeeman to come out in support of Herbert Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination. Likewise, he was in the forefront of the movement to secure the 1936 nomination for Kansas governor Alfred Landon. Creager was a close friend of and floor leader for Senator Robert A. Taft at the Republican national convention of 1948. In addition to his political activities, he was president of an oil company. He died on October 28, 1950, in Brownsville. He was survived by four children and his widow, the former Alice Terrell, whom he had married on February 3, 1904.
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CREAGER, RENTFRO BANTON
In a review of the prominent members of the southern Texas bar the name of Rentfro Banton Creager, a lawyer of Brownsville, occupies a foremost place. He has also made a splendid record as the collector of customs for the Brazos de Santiago district, and he was during two terms United States commissioner for the southern district of Texas.
Mr. Creager was born in Waco, Texas, March 11, 1877. father, Frank A. Creager, born in Maryland, came to Texas in 1859. He located first at Huntsville, and he is now deputy clerk for the United States courts in Brownsville. His mother, Kate (Rentfro) Creager, is a native daughter of Texas. The son Rentfro attended the public schools of Brownsville, and then matriculating in the Southwestern University at Georgetown he graduated therefrom in 1898 with the degree of B. S. He next became a student in the law department of the University of Texas, graduating with its law class of 1900 and with the degree of LL. B. In 1900 he began the practice of his chosen profession in Brownsville, and he has remained here throughout his professional career, winning in the meantime a high place at its bar.
Mr. Creager married in 1904 Elizabeth Alice Terrell, a daughter of John L. Terrell, of Terrell, Texas. Their two children are Katherine N. and Elizabeth A. The family are members of the Episcopal church. Historical Review of South-East Texas, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
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