Jr Lewis Conway

The Driver Jr Lewis Conway

Billie Sol Estes was the biggest Wheeler Dealer Texas has ever seen, when he got out of prison my father Lewis Conway was his driver. In the 1950's cotton was king in Texas and Billie Sol Estes was the 'King of Cotton' until he was sentenced to prison. By that time, he was worth over $400 million dollars, he counted one of the most powerful men in Texas - Lyndon Baines Johnson as a friend, and was a dyed in the wool champion of black, latino and poor people. One of the conditions of his 1971 parole (after he had served more than six years) was, in fact, that he could not go into business for himself until 1980. My father was a retired army sergeant in Abilene around the same time. Doctor John, as my Dad always called him, took a liking to my father and introduced him to his brother Billie.