Early Life
Sessions was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the son of Edith A. (née Steele) and Rev. Will Anderson Sessions, Jr. He graduated from Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1948, and enlisted in the United States Air Force, receiving his commission October 1952. He served on active duty until October 1955. He attended Baylor University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1956 and an LL.B. degree in 1958.
Sessions is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouting tradition runs deep in the Sessions' lineage – his son, Pete Sessions (a member of the United States House of Representatives serving Texas' 32nd District), is also a Distinguished Eagle Scout, his grandson Bill is also an Eagle Scout, and his father, William A. Sessions, Jr. wrote the first God and Country handbook for the Boy Scouts of America.
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