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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Merritt
"Bill" Steger (August 22, 1920 - June 4, 2006) handled some 15,000 cases
in a career spanning 35 years as a U.S. District Court judge for the
Eastern District of Texas, based in Tyler. U.S. President Richard M.
Nixon appointed Steger to the bench in 1970. Steger was a former
chairman of the Texas Republican Party and his party's unsuccessful
nominee for governor of Texas in 1960 and for the Third District U.S.
House seat in 1962. Earlier, in 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower
named him a U.S. Attorney.Steger was born to Merritt Steger and the
former Lottie Reese in Dallas and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High
School there in 1938. He attended Baylor University in Waco from 1938 to
1941.