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Bill Abington

American politician (1921-2014)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ15917373 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Henry Abington (September 6, 1921 – January 4, 2014) was an American politician. He served in the Texas House of Representatives, representing Tarrant County, from 1949 to 1953. He was a Democrat. He was born in Childress, Texas, and died in Austin, Texas. Abington was also active in the oil industry, serving as president of the Texas Oil & Gas Association.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bill Abington” as american politician (1921-2014). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2014, 1949, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-09-06. The account is most persuasive where Bill, Abington and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician (1921-2014). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15917373. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2014, 1949 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Abington” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.