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==Biography==

==Biography==

A native of [[Alabama]], Chitwood was a son of William Parker Chitwood and the former Laura Lyon. He was educated at Morgan Park Academy in the Morgan Park section of [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref name=lrl/>

A native of [[Alabama]], Chitwood was a son of William Parker Chitwood (1835-1921),  a native of Lincoln County, [[Tennessee]], and the former Laura Lyon (1850-1895). He was educated at Morgan Park Academy in the Morgan Park section of [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref name=lrl/>In 1916, he wed the former Eleanor Mary McCombie (1887-1972)Clea

In 1923, Chitwood, as a second term member of the legislature, was the chairman of the House Education Committee. That year state Senator [[William Bledsoe]] of [[Lubbock]] and Representative [[Roy Alvin Baldwin]] of Slaton in south Lubbock County pushed to passage Senate Bill 103, with a $1 million appropriation, to establish Texas Tech University as a four-year educational institution in West Texas with an emphasis on agricultural research. The school would be separate from [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], which had a similar mission and whose leadership opposed the new institution. Bledsoe confessed to having drawn up the requirements for the host city to fit only Lubbock, which was selected over thirty-six other locations, including Chitwood's Sweetwater in Nolan County, [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]] (before the existence of Angelo State University), [[Midland]], Plainview in Hale County, Brownwood in Lampasas County, Big Spring, and even Boerne, in Kendall County northwest of [[San Antonio]]. Vernon in Wilbarger County west of [[Wichita Falls]] claimed it should be selected because of its railroad access; at the time Vernon had more than one thousand more people than Lubbock.<ref name=wtha/>   

In 1923, Chitwood, as a second term member of the legislature, was the chairman of the House Education Committee. That year state Senator [[William Bledsoe]] of [[Lubbock]] and Representative [[Roy Alvin Baldwin]] of Slaton in south Lubbock County pushed to passage Senate Bill 103, with a $1 million appropriation, to establish Texas Tech University as a four-year educational institution in West Texas with an emphasis on agricultural research. The school would be separate from [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], which had a similar mission and whose leadership opposed the new institution. Bledsoe confessed to having drawn up the requirements for the host city to fit only Lubbock, which was selected over thirty-six other locations, including Chitwood's Sweetwater in Nolan County, [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]] (before the existence of Angelo State University), [[Midland]], Plainview in Hale County, Brownwood in Lampasas County, Big Spring, and even Boerne, in Kendall County northwest of [[San Antonio]]. Vernon in Wilbarger County west of [[Wichita Falls]] claimed it should be selected because of its railroad access; at the time Vernon had more than one thousand more people than Lubbock.<ref name=wtha/>