Politics and Government

"Judge Grover Sellers owned and operated one of the early Jersey Herds in Hopkins County on his farm in the Star Ridge Community. Sellers is considered one of the 'moving forces" in bringing the dairy industry to Hopkins County." In 1930 Grover Sellers "...defeated Justice William Hodges in the Democratic Primary and was subsequently elected a Justice of the Sixth Court of Appeals in Texarkana, Texas. Reelected in 1936, Sellers resigned his office to become Attorney General of Texas." Candidacy card courtesy of Cal Fontana.

Grover Sellers died in Sulphur Springs, in 1980. You might also be interested in the obituary of his brother Elisha Thomas Sellers