[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 168 (Thursday, November 1, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 ORGAIN, BELL, & TUCKER--TEXAS LAWYERS

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                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 1, 2007

  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, today I am honored to recognize a Texas 
institution, the Orgain, Bell, and Tucker law firm, on its 100th 
anniversary. Orgain, Bell, and Tucker is located in many cities 
throughout Texas and was founded in Beaumont, TX.
  William Edmund Orgain, the initial founding partner, was lured to 
Beaumont from his native Bastrop, TX by the need for land litigation 
that sprung from the Spindletop Gusher and the Texas oil boom in 1901. 
With the onset of the second oil boom the firm's second partner Major 
T. Bell joined Mr. Orgain's firm in 1925 to help with business 
generated by the second major oil unearthing in Beaumont. John G. 
Tucker joined the firm in 1933 and the firm was coined Orgain, Bell, 
and Tucker.
  Orgain, Bell, and Tucker has, for the past 100 years, served clients 
with integrity in the areas of insurance defense, commercial 
litigation, utility law, labor law, and medical and legal malpractice.
  Community service, starting with Mr. Orgain's service on the Texas 
Supreme Court Committee, which wrote the Texas Rules for Civil 
Procedure, and Major Bell's service as President of the State Bar of 
Texas in 1942, has always been a core philosophy of Orgain, Bell, and 
Tucker. Through service to the great State of Texas and to their local 
community Orgain, Bell, and Tucker's history of service has influenced 
generations of attorneys and community leaders.
  And that's just the way it is.

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