James Lamar McDougald
2.5 linear feet
A1992-026
1890-1945 (unknown)
James Lamar McDougald was born in 1924. Information about his early life is not included in the collection. One of his first jobs was working for Humble Oil. In the 1940s he served as the Texas Game and Fish Commission representative, later becoming the Game Management Department Supervisor for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in the Edinburg Office. He patrolled South Texas for illegal hunting and fishing. In 1962 he first began serving King Ranch as a Game Warden and in 1975 became their Chief of Security. McDougald traveled South Texas learning the geography of the road seeing wild donkeys and turkeys roam the open areas. He was involved in various cases concerning poaching on land and on the water as a law enforcement official. He was transferred to Del Rio after a conflict with his superiors in the Regional Office in Rockport over a boating incident. He secured a position with the King Ranch and retired from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1972. In 1975 McDougald became the Chief of Security for King Ranch.
The J. L. McDougald Papers include professional Game Warden reports, inventories, case records, and correspondence. Included are bird census reports, legal opinions and training certificates. A small amount of personal correspondence is available within the folders of professional correspondence.
Series 1: Texas Parks #x0026 Wildlife Department Series 2: Texas Game #x0026 Fish Commission Sub-Series A: Traveling expense accounts Series 3: Inventory Series 4: Correspondence Sub-Series A: Official Sub-Series B: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Sub-Series C: J.D. Gorman Sub-Series D: Jerry Allen Walzel Sub-Series E: Jack S. Maddux Sub-Series F: K. Stewart Sub-Series G: Don Powell Sub-Series H: Beulah J. Meek Sub-Series I: Fred W. Lambert Sub-Series J: Legal Series 5: Case Records Sub-Series A: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Sub-Series B: Game#x0026 Fish Commission Sub-Series C: Personnel Records Series 6: Miscellaneous Series 7: Annual Airplane Reports Series 8: Photographs
South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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A1992-026 Gift from David Stiles on behalf of J. L. McDougald
A1992-026 was originally processed in 1993, unknown processor, entered into the database in 2018 by Juan Duran, Finding Aid and EAD created by Lori Atkins in 2018.