- Advisor to US president Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Became prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer and lobbyist.
- Children from first marriage - Coco and Peter. Child from second marriage - Samuel B.
- He was honored with a lifetime achievement award by American Lawyer magazine in 2008.
- His first marriage to Clayton Read in 1952 ended in divorce with two children, Coco McPherson and Peter McPherson. His second marriage to Mary Patricia DeGroot in 1981 and is survived by her and their son, Samuel McPherson.
- He enlisted and served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War and served as an intelligence officer in Germany, assessing Soviet troop deployments.
- Son of Harry McPerson and Nan Hight McPherson. He studied at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from the University of the South in 1949 with a Bachelor's Degree. He had intended to be a writer and poet. He enrolled in a graduate program in literature at Columbia University in New York City. He earned a law degree from the University of Texas in Austin in 1956.
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