Marshall Formby was
raised in McAdoo and Spur in Dickens
County. He was
a Texas attorney, newspaper publisher, radio
executive, and a Democratic politician who
served a term in the Texas State Senate from
District 30 from 1941 to 1945. He was a defender
of West Texas interests and entitled a 1962
book, These Are My People. Formby
returned to McAdoo specifically to run for
office and at age twenty-five became youngest
county judge in Texas.