Graduate, Westminster College and University of Texas Law School. Currently the owner/manager of Mekusukey Oil Company and represents many other businesses in the oil and gas industry. Formerly General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Devon Energy, Oklahoma City; Partner with Mayer, Brown & Platt, NYC; Senior Vice President, Bankers Trust Company; Partner with Hardesty, Whyte, Hemphill & Ligon, Washington, DC; Partner, Bracewell & Patterson, Washington, DC; and Director with Blueknight Energy Partners, Emerald Oil Company, PostRock Energy Corporation, System One, and Vantage Drilling. U.S. Army, Captain, Military Intelligence, Bronze Star from service in Vietnam. Avid Civil War buff since he was 10, with three ancestors with Civil War lineage.