Doug Ault - Major League Baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays (FHS)
Kelly Asbury - Film Director/Author/Illustrator/Actor/Historian (FHS)
Louie Kelcher - NFL DT, San Diego Chargers & San Francisco 49ers (FHS)
Charlie Helpinstill - Musician/composer - performs in the Houston area inder the stage name of Ezra Charles. Founded the Helpinstill company, which manufactures portable grand pianos and piano pickups for stage performers. (FHS)
Pat Hardy - 1977 World Karate Championship (FHS)
Gus Holloman - Was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 1968, Hollomon left the club for the New York Jets in 1970, where he played through 1972. (FHS)
O.A. "Bum" Phillips - Head coach Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saint(FHS)

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Charles C. Alexander - Accomplished writer and Professor of Baseball History at Ohio University
Jerry Ball - "Ice Box" - NFL DT, Detroit Lions, (West Brook Senior High School )
Benny Barnes - Singer and guitar player
Tex Beaumont - Singer-songwriter
Aidan Black - Actor
James "Bubba" Busceme - Olympic and Golden Glove boxer (SPHS)
Clay Buchholz - Pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
Jack Brooks - Born in Louisiana, Jack Brooks moved to Beaumont at the age of five and graduated from Beaumont High School. Brooks was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1946, representing Jefferson County
James Brown - American football QB attended UT& West Brook Senior High School.
Ben Broussard - First Baseman for the Seattle Mariners.
Tracy Byrd - Singer
Keith Carter - Photographer
Mark Chesnutt - Singer - first record in 1981 at the age of 17 (SPHS)
Robert Laurel Crippen - Former NASA astronaut.
Miller Farr - Denver Broncos in 1964 & more (HHS)
J.D. Feigelson - Film Writer, Producer & Director (BHS)
Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza - Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
Larry Graham - Musician
Robert Glasper - Jazz musician signed to Blue Note Records.
Larry Graham - Was born 1946 in Beaumont. In 1968, he joined Sly & the Family Stone
Irma P. Hall - Actress
Grady Hatton - MLB player
Mark Henry - Professional wrestler
Harry James - Musician
Buddy Johnson - ACM, CMA, Grammy Nominated Disk Jockey...KYKR, KLVI, KKRM,
Blind Willie Johnson - Gospel singer and bottleneck guitar player
George Jones - Singer
Bruce Lietzke - PGA Tour golfer - born in Kansas City, he moved to Beaumont in 1960, graduated from Forest Park High School in '69.
Jerry LeVias - NFL Wide receiver, broke color barrier in Southwest Athletic Conference @ Southern Methodist University (Hebert High School)
Bob Mcdill - Songwriter and guitarist
Kevin Millar - Baltimore Orioles first baseman
Barbara Lynn Ozen - Singer and songwriter
Bernard Parks - Los Angeles City Council member, former LAPD chief
Kendrick Perkins - NBA player for the Boston Celtics. 4A State Basketball Championship. (Ozen High School)
Mark Petkovsek - Major League Baseball Player
Jiles Perry Richardson (The Big Bopper) - Musician
Brandon Rideau - Wide receiver for the Chicago Bears in the NFL. 4A Basketball State Championship.
Frank Robinson - Major League Baseball Player & Manager - Hall of Famer, first player to win MVP in both leagues, won AL Triple Crown & World Series MVP in 1966, and ended career with 586 home runs
Benny Sims Jr. - Professional Tennis Coach
Charles A. "Bubba" Smith - NFL defensive end and actor - Smith grew up in Beaumont, graduating from Charlton-Pollard HS
Billie Jo Spears - Born in Beaumont, Texas in 1937 - Singer - struck gold in 1969, when her single "Mr. Walker It's All Over"
John Tower - Senator - (1925-1991) graduated from Beaumont High School
Billy Tubbs - Basketball Coach - born Beaumont. He graduated from Lamar University in 1958
Lawrence Vickers - plays fullback for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL.
Clay Walker - Singer - Attended South Park but graduated from Vidor High School in 1987.
Herbert "Bert" Weaver - Professional Golfers' Association. First male from Beaumont to win PGA Tournament
T.J. Wright - NFL Defensive Back, Cincinnati Bengals
Mark Williams - PBA bowler
Johnny Winter - Musician
Edgar Winter - Musician
James Harold Young - "Big Sambo" Saxophonist and band leader
Babe Didrickson Zaharias - Born in Port Arthur, attended school in Beaumont -she won two gold medals and a silver, breaking world records in the javelin toss, high jump, softball throw, and 80-meter hurdles later turning to golf.
Gus Zernial - MLB player

be sure to visit
Museum of the Gulf Coast
for all of our TEXAS born and raised legends!

Today's Lone Star Flag was first adopted on January 24, 1839 as the national flag of the Republic of Texas. It was first proposed in legislation introduced in the Third Congress of the Republic by William Wharton. The designer of the flag is unknown.The flag was later adopted as the state flag when Texas became the 28th state in 1845. As with the flag of the United States, the blue stands for loyalty, the white represents strength, and the red is for bravery.
Texas Flower The Bluebonnet: Named for its color and, it is said, the resemblance of its petal to a woman's sunbonnet, the bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas.
The State Tree is the Pecan Tree. The pecan is a large tree native to North America.
The State Gemstone is the Blue Topaz Blue topaz was adopted as the state gemstone as the result of legislation approved March 26, 1969. The same legislation also named petrified palmwood as the state stone.
The Texas State Bird: Mockingbird. The mimus polyglottos, as the mockingbird is known scientifically, is about ten inches in length, including its relatively long tail.



Beaumont,Texas

BEAUMONT is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas and is within the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Gulf Coast.
The city of Beaumont was named by Henry Millard for the family of his deceased wife, Mary Beaumont. Millard came to Texas in 1835 and, along with his business partners, purchased some land between the settlements of Tevis Bluff and Santa Anna. On this property, they founded the city of Beaumont.
Beaumont became a town on December 16, 1838. Beaumont's first mayor was Alexander Calder.
Beaumont was a small center for cattle raisers and farmers in its early years, and with an active riverport by the late 1800s, it became an important lumber and rice-milling town. The Beaumont Rice Mill, founded in 1892 by Joseph Eloi Broussard, was the first commercial rice mill in Texas. Beaumont's lumber boom, which reached its peak in the late 1800s, was due in large part to the rebuilding and expansion of the railroads after the Civil War. By the early 1900s, the city was served by the Southern Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and Missouri Pacific railroad systems.
Oil was discovered at nearby Spindletop on January 10, 1901. Spindletop became the first major oil field and one of the largest in American history. With the discovery of oil at Spindletop, Beaumont's population grew from 3,296 in 1890 to 9,427 in 1900.
In 1996, the Jefferson County courts, located in Beaumont, became the first court in the nation to implement electronic filing and service of court documents, eliminating the need for law firms to print and mail reams of documents.
In 2005, Beaumont and surrounding areas suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Rita. A mandatory evacuation was imposed upon its residents for about two weeks.



Beaumont Links

Beaumont Police Dept.
Listen to Live Dispatch, hear whats going on in Beaumont

Southeasttexaslive
The Beaumont Enterprise

Port Of Beaumont
Look at the Port of Beaumont

Beaumont Civic Center Complex
Look at area complexes

Jefferson County Public Records!
Public records!

Channel 4 News

Beaumont Camera Club





~~~~~~~ More Links ~~~~~~~

Texas Country Reporter

Liberty Opry On The Square

Texas Lottery

Cool Texas Stuff

Recalls

Fun in South East Texas 365 Days

TourTex

Jefferson County Appraisal District

Jefferson County Website

Texas Monthly Online

Lamar



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