T. H. McGregor, Dallas, TX., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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T. H. McGregor is a Shreveport attorney who has employed his profession

and his personal influence in behalf of many worthy movements in his 

section of the state.  He was an educator before be entered the 

profession of law, and is president of the Civitan Club of Shreveport.



A native of Dallas, Texas, Mr. McGregor was reared at Minden, in 

Webster Parish, Louisiana.  He acquired a liberal education, graduating 

from the Peabody Normal College at Nashville, Tennessee with the L I. 

degree in 1895, and in 1898 received the A. B. degree from the 

University of Nashville.  His work as an educator covered ten years in 

Louisiana public schools.  For several years he was parish superintendent 

of schools in Richland Parish, with home at Rayville.



Mr. McGregor studied law while teaching, was admitted to the bar in 

1905, and in the same year began practice at Rayville.  Since 1916 his 

home and offices have been in Shreveport, where he has achieved a 

large business in his profession.



Mr. McGregor was organizer of the Civitan Club of Shreveport, and as 

its president has directed its affairs in close co-operation with other 

organizations to promote the success of every worthy civic movement.  

As president of the club Mr. McGregor has directed its efforts in 

co-operation with other organizations to the accomplishment of a plan 

which originated in his own mind, for the organization of a separate 

juvenile court in Shreveport.  He was chairman of the General Central 

Committee sponsoring this movement, Mr. McGregor was for two years 

president of the State Baptist Convention of Louisiana, and is a 

deacon of the First Baptist Church.



He married Miss Duffie Willis, of Rayville, daughter of Mr. and 

Mrs. J. W. Willis, a very prominent family of that town.  The two 

sons of Mr. and Mrs. McGregor are T. H., Jr., and Malcolm McGregor, 

the latter a student in the Shreveport High School.  T. H. McGregor, 

Jr., was for two and a half years a cadet in the United States 

Naval Academy at Annapolis, and is now employed in the Congressional 

Library at Washington and also taking a law course in George 

Washington University.  This son was recently honored by election 

as secretary of the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity at Washington.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p.142 , by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.