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Noteworthy Fair Park Visitors

Underlined names are links to visitor vignettes.

Please note that this list does not purport to be all-inclusive. If there is someone you think ought to be included, please contact the author of this website at: texian1846@yahoo.com

William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
1899

Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
1900 & 1911

Buffalo Bill Cody
"Buffalo Bill" Cody
1900 & 1902

Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
1900 & 1902

Carrie Nation
Carrie Nation
1902

Barney Oldfield
Barney Oldfield
1905 & 1909

Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers
1908

William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
1909

Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker
1886, 1909 & 1910

Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
1911

Cal Rodgers
Cal Rodgers
1911

Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
1914

John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing
1920

Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini
1924

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936

J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
1936

Helen Keller
Helen Keller
1941

Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson
1952

Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
1952 & 1961

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
1957

Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
1959

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963

Ralph Abernathy
Ralph Abernathy
1963 & 1972

Gerald R. Ford
Gerald R. Ford
1976

George Bush
George Bush (Sr.)
1986 & 1989


More Noteworthy Fair Park Visitors

Actors & Actresses

  • Anna Marie Albreghetti (1958)
  • Jack Benny (1937)
  • Yul Brynner (1954)
  • Hopalong Cassidy (1954)
  • Tom Ewell (1961)
  • George Gobel (1958)
  • Edie Gorme
  • Phil Harris
  • "Sky" King and Penny (1958)
  • Jerry Lewis (1952)
  • Art Linkletter (1936 & 1972)
  • Mary Livingstone (1937)
  • Ann Margaret (1961)
  • Mary Martin (1947)
  • Clayton Moore - the "Lone Ranger" (1972)
  • Roy Rogers (1936)
  • Meredith Wilson (1958)

Pioneer Aviators

  • Frank Goodale (1909)
  • Otto Brodie (1910)
  • International Aviators, Inc. (January 1911)
    • Rene Barrier
    • Roland Garros
    • Rene Simon
    • Edmund Audemars
    • John G. Frisbie
    • Charles K. Hamilton
    • Joe Seymour
  • May 1911 Air Meet
    • Eugene Ely
    • James J. Ward
    • C. C. Witmer
  • Oct. 1911 Air Meet
    • J. A. D. McCurdy
    • Cal Rodgers
      (see above)
    • Beckwith Havens
  • Moisant International Aviators (March 1912)
    • Francisco or Ramon Alvarez
    • Andre Hupert
    • Harold Kantner
    • Mathilde Moisant
  • Feb. 1913 Air Meet
    • Fred De Kor
    • Katherine Stinson
    • [?] Terrill
    • Capt. [?] Worden
  • Lincoln Beachey (1914)
  • Art Smith (1915)
  • Edison McVey (1925)

Musicians

  • Laverne Baker (1958)
  • The Beach Boys (1996)
  • Pat Boone (1961)
  • Bobby Darin (1961)
  • Duke Ellington (1936)
  • "Tennessee Ernie" Ford (1958)
  • Benny Goodman (1937)
  • Phil Harris
  • Steve Lawrence
  • Dean Martin (1952)
  • Willie Nelson (1986)
  • Elvis Presley (1956)
  • The Rolling Stones (1989)
  • John Philip Sousa
  • Rudy Vallee (1936)

Misc.

  • Lillian Boyer - Stuntwoman (1922)
  • Hiram Wesley Evans - KKK Grand Imperial Wizard (1923)
  • Charles Goodnight - Cattle Baron (1910)

Politicians

  • Texas Governor Colquitt (1914)
  • Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg
  • Senator Barbara Jordan (1972)
  • Texas Governor Sul Ross (1887)

Reformers

  • Coretta Scott King (1972)

Royalty

  • Queen Elizabeth II
    & Prince Phillip (1991)

Sports Figures

  • Jess Willard (1915)
  • "Babe" Didrickson (1938)

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