Hon. William Madison Jeter. In 1908 the citizens of Potter county chose to the office of county judge one of the rising young lawyers of the Panhandle country and a young man who in every relation of life, from cowboy to judge, has shown splendid ability as an administrator and an integrity which has gained for him the complete confidence of all his fellow citizens. Owing to the fact that Amarillo has become one of the chief distributing, centers and the metropolis of the entire Panhandle country, the business concentrated in the county court there is probably as large as that of almost any other county in the state, and it is therefore a place of great responsibility which Judge Jeter fills. William Madison Jeter was born in Winn Parish, Louisiana, January 28, 1871. His father was Henry M. Jeter, a native of Florida, who came to Louisiana when a young man, during the early fifties, and was a merchant and farmer by occupation. For four years he served as sheriff of Grant parish in Louisiana. A Democrat in politics, he took an active part in political and civic affairs up to the time of his death, in 1885, when he was thirty-five years of age. The maiden name of his wife was Nancy R. Wamock, who also was born in Florida, and is now living in Palatka, Florida, at the age of fifty-eight. Judge Jeter was the oldest of the six children in the family. He attained his education in the schools of his native place, and by private study. When he was sixteen years old he left home and came out to Texas, and ever since has made his own way, relying upon his own industry and his native ability to win him a place among his competitors in life. His first experience after coming to Amarillo in the pioneer year of 1888, was employment as a cowboy in the LX Ranch. From cowboy he was elevated to the position of county and district clerk of Moore county, which position he filled for four years, and subsequently was elected county judge of same county and gave three years and a half of service in that capacity. As a young man on the ranch he must have displayed unusual abilities, not only as a ranchman, but also such as to entitle him to public confidence, else he could hardly have been elected to head the administrative government of Moore county. While serving as county judge, he took up the study of law, and in 1906 was admitted to the bar before the court of Civil appeals. In the same year he established his home at Amarillo, and two years later was elected to his present office of county judge of Potter county. Judge Jeter has always taken an active part in politics and is one of the leading Democrats in this section of the state. He belongs to the County Bar Association, and fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen of the World, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. As county judge he is also ex-officio county superintendent of schools for Potter county. Judge Jeter is a member of the board of stewards of the Polk Street Methodist church in Amarillo.