Matthew Fielding Locke
After the war, Locke returned to Mississippi, and in 1849 married Elizabeth A. Biue. Shortly thereafter they moved to Upshur County, Texas. He established a plantation about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of present-day Gilmer and founded the nearby town of LaFayette (which he named after his son, LaFayette C. Locke, who was born in 1850). Locke began the first of two terms as a state representative in 1855 in the Sixth Texas Legislature. In the Seventh Legislature, Locke was elected Speaker of the House "pro tempore" on 26 December 1857 when Speaker William S. Taylor took ill. When Taylor resigned on 18 January 1858, Locke was elected Speaker over Reps. Isaac N. Dennis and John Henry Brown, 39 votes to 14 and 13, respectively.
Richard M. Locke
The second of four children of Franca Franzaroli, Locke is a 1981 graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He began his academic career at MIT as an Assistant Professor of International Management, before becoming the Alvin J. Siteman Chair in Entrepreneurship, and later the Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management. He also served as chair of MIT's Political Science Department and deputy dean in the MIT Sloan School of Management.