When it comes to longevity, Perry Mason has nothing over longtime Lamesa lawyer Willis E. Gresham. The popular television show that featured a bulldog attorney played by Raymond Burr first aired the year Gresham began his law career fresh out of UT Austin Law School. Perry Mason ran on television from 1957 to 1966, but Gresham’s law career—perhaps likened to the Energizer Bunny—kept going and going and going. To gain further perspective on its longevity, consider other events that occurred when Gresham started law in 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower began his second term. Elvis Presley came out with the hit song Jail House Rock. Successful ...