George Dealey

A plaza in Dallas is named in his honor and became instantly world-famous when it was the site of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

On October 12, 1874, Dealey assumed an older brother's job as an office boy at The Galveston News at $3.00 per week, for the owner, Alfred H. Belo.

Dealey helped establish Southern Methodist University and was instrumental in bringing a Federal Reserve branch to Dallas.

Dealey served on the board of governors of the American City Planning Institute (1920–21), as vice president of the National Municipal League (1923–24), on the advisory council of the American Planning and Civic Association, and on the national committee of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.

He was a director of the Children's Hospital of Texas and was president of the Family Bureau, a Dallas social agency, from its inception in 1908.

[2] A younger brother, James Q. Dealey (1861–1937), was a professor of political science at Brown University and later editor of the Morning News.

[4] Another grandson, Dr. Walter Allen (Al) Dealey Jr. became a Christian minister and studied under Norman Vincent Peale.

[5][6] Dealey was a thirty-third-degree Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, and member of the Red Cross of Constantine.

[7] Dealey was still working as a publisher when he died of a massive coronary occlusion at his Dallas home, February 26, 1946,[8] at the age of 86.