Terms Served:
April 1973-April 1979 (Council)
April 1981-April 1983 (Council)
April 1983-May 1991 (Mayor)
May 1997-Present (Mayor)

CONTACT INFORMATION
P. O. Box 988
Mount Pleasant, TX 75456
Business Phone: (903) 572-8528
Business Fax: (903) 572-2480

PROFESSION
Owner, Boatner's Home Furniture

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
·Member Executive Board Ark-Tex Council of Governments (past)
·Member and Past President, Mount Pleasant Industrial Foundation
·Member and Past President, Mount Pleasant Kiwanis Club
·Past President, Titus County Cancer Society

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Sports, travel, reading, and local history

HONORS AND AWARDS
1984 Mount Pleasant/Titus County Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year

EDUCATION
·1963 Graduate of Mount Pleasant High School
·B.A. Government 1967 Texas Tech University
·M.A. Journalism 1969 University of Missouri

"Mount Pleasant is a positive and spirited community that is progressive and welcoming to quality growth opportunities. Because of our location and terrain we are poised for new growth. Our parks and open spaces, our public facilities and private opportunities, our spirit and desire to progress in a quality way - all of these wonderfully unique assets mark Mount Pleasant as a city with a outstanding past and a very bright future."

"We invite people of energy and vision to join us at the Hub of Northeast Texas."