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Claude Hudspeth, for whom Hudspeth County was named, was a state senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He became a ranch worker at age 9 and an editor-publisher of an Ozona newspaper at 16, and was largely self-educated. He won a seat in the legislature in 1902, beginning a 29-year public career, and authored many bills to benefit working man. He served in the Texas Senate from 1907 to 1919; during that time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1909. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1919 to 1931 and upheld sending a U.S. force to defend El Pasoans endangered by Mexican Revolutionary fighting.
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