 John Willacy, farmer and legislator, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1859.He moved to Texas in 1892 and settled in the Corpus Christi area as a truck farmer.From 1899 to 1914 he was a member of the Texas legislature, where he served in the House of the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh legislatures and in the Senate of the Twenty-eighth through the Thirty-third.