Tom Lea
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Tom Lea may refer to:
- Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr.Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr.Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr. , was a prominent American attorney from El Paso, Texas, and mayor of that city from 1915 to 1917.-Biography:Lea was born in Independence, Missouri, to Thomas Calloway and Amanda Rose Lea....
, Mayor of El Paso, Texas, for the (1915–1917) term, father of Tom Lea, and first cousin of Homer Lea - Thomas C. Lea, IIIThomas C. Lea, IIIThomas Calloway "Tom" Lea, III was a noted American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian....
– (1906–2001; son of Thomas C. Lea, Jr.), muralist, artist, illustrator, author, LIFE war artist and correspondent - Massa Tom Lea, slave owner and ancestor of Alex Haley in Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyRoots: The Saga of an American FamilyRoots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the U.S....