List of people from Marshall, Texas

This is a list of notable people associated with Marshall, Texas.

This article is part of the Marshall series.

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Alphonso Jackson is the current and 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Marshall Senior High School graduate Lady Bird Johnson, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, helped convince Texas to plant wildflowers on state highways.

Louis T. Wigfall served in the Senates of the United States and the Confederacy.

This list is incomplete.

• Phillip Benjamin Baldwin – jurist
• Mike Barber – football player, evangelist
• John Burke – lawyer, soldier, and spy
• Edward Clark – Texas Governor
• Mike Clark - NFL placekicker
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver
• George Dawson – author
• Floyd Dixon – R&B pianist
• Mathew Ector – jurist and legislator
• Chris Elrod – Christian comedian and writer
• James L. Farmer, Jr. – founder of CORE, organized freedom rides
• James L. Farmer, Sr. – first Black Texan to hold a doctorate
• George Foreman – athlete and entrepreneur
• Brea Grant – actress
• Ben Z. Grant – playwright, Texas legislator, state judge
• Homer Hailey - Church of Christ preacher and author, born in Marshall in 1903
• Sam B. Hall, Jr. – former congressman and federal jurist
• James Pinckney Henderson – first governor of Texas
• Susan Howard – actress, writer, activist
• Alphonso Jackson – member of George W. Bush's cabinet
• Lady Bird Johnson – First Lady and environmental activist
• Walter P. Lane – Confederate General
• Fred T. Long – Wiley College football coach and athletic director
• Robert W. Loughery – journalist, publisher, and diplomat
• Ashley C. McKinley – aviator; explorer
• Leo Michelson – painter and sculptor
• John T. Mills – Supreme Court Justice of the Republic of Texas
• Johnny Moss – champion poker player
• Bill Moyers – journalist and government official
• Pendleton Murrah – Texas Governor
• Gertrude Nelson
• Lucy Holcombe Pickens – 19th-century Southern socialite
• William Henry Pope – politician, self-described "Jim Crow Senator"
• Horace Randal – Confederate brigadier general
• Wendy Russell Reves – fashion model, philanthropist
• Henry Roquemore – 20th-century actor
• Max Sandlin – former congressman and House Minority Whip
• I. B. Scott – Methodist Episcopal cleric, newspaper editor, and educator
• Franklin Barlow Sexton – Confederate Congressman
• Terrance Shaw – NFL cornerback
• Kendrick Starling — NFL wide receiver
• James Harper Starr – politician
• Kaley Tibbetts - doctor, entrepreneur
• Y.A. Tittle – football Hall of Famer
• Melvin B. Tolson – author, poet, and politician
• Isaac Van Zandt – statesman of both Republic and State of Texas
• James Wheaton – actor
• Peter Whetstone – pioneer leader, city father
• Louis T. Wigfall – U.S. Senator, later Confederate Senator
• Kevin Williams – NFL running back
• Bob Young – football player

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