The special commission is listed in the state archives of Austin. After being impeached and forced to resign as governor, she was first elected after her husband “Pa” Ferguson, and at least 40 Rangers resigned instead of serving under her.Ī year later, Hamer gave his reason for retiring: “I leave when they elected a woman governor.”Texas Rangers commander allowed him to retain an active senior ranger commission. He left for a week before taking over the governor’s office for a second term, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson. Hamer retired in 1932 after nearly 27 years with the Rangers. However, the bankers did not change the terms of the reward, and more bounty killings occurred in 1930. His racket disclosure resulted in public outrage, investigation, and charges. He wrote a detailed racket exposé, which he called “the bankers ‘ assassination machine,” and took his article to the press room of the State Capitol and handed out copies.
But the police refused him support and the Bankers ‘ Association’s position was that “any man who could be induced to participate in a bank robbery should be killed. Hamer determined that men would set up deadbeats and two-bit outlaws to be killed by complicit police officers the officers would collect the rewards and pay the finder’s fees to the men. The Texas Bankers ‘ Association had begun offering $5,000 rewards for “dead bank robbers- not one cent for live ones. Hamer stopped a hire ring murder in 1928, and he was made nationally famous by his extraordinary means of doing this. However, the mob set fire to the court, and the prisoner died in the inferno. Hamer personally shot and wounded two of the mob’s leaders, forcing the lynchers to flee the court. In 1930 he protected a black rape suspect from a 6,000-strong mob with a handful of rangers in Sherman, Texas. Throughout his career, he was a hero saving 15 people from lynch mobs.
Starting in 1922, Hamer led the Texas struggle against the Ku Klux Klan as Texas Rangers ‘ senior captain who was still growing in Texas. Johnson’s father, Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr., was among those who escorted Canales to the early 1919 hearing. He stalked Canales in the capital and Future President Lyndon B. The threat to the governor was reported by Canales, but Hamer was not disciplined. Hamer threatens Jose Tomas Canales in1918 because he was leading the investigations that involved rangers abusing residents of the Rio Grande Valley. He resigned from the Rangers in 1908 to become the City Marshal of Navasota, Texas, a lawless, violence-wracked boom town “shootings on the main street were so frequent that in two years”Īfter the incident of 1921 Hamer was transferred to Austin in 1921 where he served as senior ranger captain. Rogers in Alpine, Texas, and began patrolling the Mexican border. On April 21, 1906, he joined Company C of Captain John H. Hamer was an off-and-on Ranger throughout his adult life, often resigning to take on other jobs. Though Hamer’s service as a prohibition agent was briefly Stationed primarily in El Paso, the scene of countless gunfights during the Prohibition era, Hamer notable incident in March 1921, was involved in a gun battle with smugglers that resulted in the death of Prohibition Agent Ernest W. Hamer joined the Rangers and was assigned to patrol the South Texas border around Brownsville in 1915.
the sheriff was the one who advised him to became a ranger and he did so the next year. Frank Hamer career Franks Early Life as a Rangerįrank started his law enforcement in the year 1905 after arresting ahorse thief. Hamer was more of a solitary wolf but during the killing of Clyde and Bonnie, Hamer brought in former fellow Ranger Maney Gault who had resigned from the Ranger force when “Ma” Ferguson was elected and was now working for the Texas Highway Patrol and the Likes of Sheriff Jordan and his deputy Prentiss Oakley and they patterned. Frank Hamer PhotoĪustin, TexasFrank Hamer stood 6-feet, 3-inches tall and weighed more than 200 pounds. Fully grown, Frank Hamer stood 6-feet, 3-inches tall and weighed more than 200 pounds. He was born in match17, 1984 and died on July 10, 1955. He is an inductee to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and died on 10 July 1955, Austin, Texas, United States.Ĭhildren: Frank Hamer Jr., Billy Hamer. Hamer acquired legendary status in the Southwest as the archetypal Texas Ranger. Was a Texas Ranger, known in popular culture for his leadership of a 1934 posse to track down and kill the criminal duo, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Frank Hamer was born in Wilson County, Texas, United States on 17 March 1884.
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