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For a time Formby operated the weekly ''Aspermont Star'' in rural Aspermont in Stonewall County in West Texas and later  ''The Plainview Tribune.''<ref name=plainview/> In the late 1940s,Formby pursued his [[Juris Doctor]]ate degree, which he received in 1951 from [[Baylor University]] Law School in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas.<ref name=formby>{{cite web|url= http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00098/tsw-00098.html|title=Marshall Formby: An Inventory of His Papers, 1883-1989 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref>​

For a time Formby operated the weekly ''Aspermont Star'' in rural Aspermont in Stonewall County in West Texas and later  ''The Plainview Tribune.''<ref name=plainview/> In the late 1940s,Formby pursued his [[Juris Doctor]]ate degree, which he received in 1951 from [[Baylor University]] Law School in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas.<ref name=formby>{{cite web|url= http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00098/tsw-00098.html|title=Marshall Formby: An Inventory of His Papers, 1883-1989 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref>​

After his admission to the bar in 1952, Formby returned to Plainview to join the firm of LaFont and Tudor, founded by Judge Harold M. LaFont and later known as LaFont, Formby, Hamilton, LaFont, and Hamilton<ref name=plainview/> In 1953, he was appointed to the Texas Highway Commission, since the Texas Transportation Commission, by [[Governor]] Allan Shivers.<ref name=plaque/> From 1957 to 1959, he was chairman of the commission and worked particularly to bring highway improvements to West Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/79R/analysis/pdf/SB00921H.pdf|title=C.S.S.B. 921|publisher=capitol.state.tx.us|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref> During his time on the commission, he visited all but three of Texas's 254 counties.<ref name=plainview/>​

After his admission to the bar in 1952, Formby returned to Plainview to join the firm of LaFont and Tudor, founded by Judge Harold M. LaFont and later known as LaFont, Formby, Hamilton, LaFont, and Hamilton<ref name=plainview/> In 1953, he was appointed to the Texas Highway Commission, since the Texas Transportation Commission, by [[Governor]] Allan Shivers.<ref name=plaque/> From 1957 to 1959, he was chairman of the commission and worked particularly to bring highway improvements to West Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/79R/analysis/pdf/SB00921H.pdf|title=C.S.S.B. 921|publisher=capitol.state.tx.us|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> During his time on the commission, he visited all but three of Texas's 254 counties.<ref name=plainview/>​

[[Clint Formby]], a radio broadcaster from Hereford and a cousin of former state Senator Robert Duncan, described his uncle Marshall as a person who "swam upstream . . . and had his mind set on what he wanted to do." Duncan's mother was Formby's sister, the former Mae Robena Formby (1921–2009). She was named by Marshall Formby and his brother, John C. Formby (1902–1989), who was Clint's father.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date= April 20, 2003|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref>​

[[Clint Formby]], a radio broadcaster from Hereford and a cousin of former state Senator Robert Duncan, described his uncle Marshall as a person who "swam upstream . . . and had his mind set on what he wanted to do." Duncan's mother was Formby's sister, the former Mae Robena Formby (1921–2009). She was named by Marshall Formby and his brother, John C. Formby (1902–1989), who was Clint's father.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date= April 20, 2003|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref>​