Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Thomas David Wells

Full Name: Thomas David Wells, Jr.
Birth date: January 8, 1911
Death date: December 4, 1976

T.D. Wells, Jr., birth date 1/8/1911, death date 12/4/1976 in Paris, Lamar County, attorney. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
United States Navy, Lieutenant Commander, World War II. Military grave marker, Thomas D. Wells, Jr., birth date 1/8/1911, death date 12/4/1976, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County. Includes photograph. Find a Grave .
United States Army and United States Navy, World War II. Photo and biographical sketch, "Parisian Commissioned: Lt. T.D. Wells," 2/9/1942, p. 7. "Former U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas David Wells . . . who has been commissioned a lieutenant junior grade, in the U.S. Navy. Lt. Wells, who served two terms in the Texas Legislature from Lamar County, entered the Army by Selective Service in January, 1941." Paris News .
Obituary and photo, "Attorney T.D. Wells Dies," 12/5/1976, p. 1. Paris News .
Memorial, April 1977, p. 355. Texas Bar Journal .
United States Army, Private, and United States Navy, Lieutenant Commander, World War II. "Having entered the Army as a private in 1941, Mr. Wells transferred to the Navy the next year as a lieutenant, j.g. He survived the sinking of his ship, the U.S.S. Wasp, and later served on the U.S.S. Block Island and the U.S.S. Lake Champlain. When he left the service in 1945, Mr. Wells had attained the rank of lieutenant commander." Memorial, April 1977, p. 355. Texas Bar Journal .