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02/28/23 ; Former State Rep., House.!
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Over the past three decades, Gus F. Mutscher (1935-) has served the citizens of this state as legislator, chairman of major legislative committees, two-term speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, and county judge of Washington County.
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Mutscher was born in the William Penn community of Washington County, Texas, the second of four children. As a young man, Mutscher was graduated from Brenham High School and attended Blinn Junior College on a baseball scholarship.
A member of the school's championship debate team, he subsequently enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1956. While a student at the university, Mutscher served as the international president of Gamma Delta, a Lutheran student organization.
A commissioned reserve officer in the United States Army, Mutscher returned to Texas following military service to accept a position in sales and advertising with the