About Randal Tye Thomas
Randal Tye Thomas served as Mayor of Gun Barrel City, Texas. He was also a member of the Electoral College in the 2000 Presidential Election. In January 2000, Thomas founded Lakeside News, a weekly newspaper in Gun Barrel City. He began to demonstrate unusually bright entrepreneurial qualities at an early age, and while he was a student at Mabank High School, he founded and published a newspaper known as Cedar Creek Briefs. He won the competition and a full scholarship to the University, where he eventually enrolled as a business student on the Providence campus.
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