Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 


"The Malakoff News" newspaper of July 13, 1934, page 5 in middle

Sam McCorkle for State Senate

  Sam McCorkle of Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas, who is a candidate for State
Senator for the Sixth Senatorial District, is an attorney of ten years experience.
Mr. McCorkle was elected District Attorney of Limestone and Freestone Counties
three times in succession, serving in that capacity for six years. He was not a
candidate for re-election two years ago.
  Mr. McCorkle is advocating the abolishing of all State taxes on homes and farms, 
and substituting therefar [mistake in the original] an increased tax on natural 
gas and an increased tax on sulphur [sulfur], shifting the tax burden from the 
home owners in Texas to the corporate interests of the State.
  In the past Mr. McCorkle has been very active in behalf of highways, and one of
the principal planks in his platform is a constructive program for the building 
of a system of lateral roads in Texas that will serve the farmers and citizens of
the rural communities of Texas. He pledges himself to the enactment of laws that
will assure the expenditure of any further money for highways, being utilized in
large numbers on the lateral road system of the State.
   Mr. McCorkle engaged in a speaking campaign in 1928 in behalf of Alfred E. 
Smith and the National Democratic ticket, which took him over a large part of
the State. He was elected a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 
Chicago in 1932, and supported and voted for the nomination of Franklin D. 
Roosevelt, and John Nance Garner.