Thomas D. Westfall (May 14, 1927 – March 7, 2005) was an American politician who served as the mayor of El Paso, Texas for one term from 1979 to 1981.
Westfall was then hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and worked as an agent for over 25 years in Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Savannah, Georgia, and finally in El Paso, Texas, where he was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge.
In this capacity, he supervised criminal investigations of offenses of federal laws until his retirement.
[1] Westfall ran into situations which put him in opposition to many of his political opponents, some of whom preferred a more subtle approach to problems.
[1] In 1985 Westfall relocated to North Bend, Oregon where he died in March 2005 at the age of 77.