Thaddeus “Thad” Thomson Hutcheson Jr., a Houston native who had a long career with the firm of Baker Botts as a corporate lawyer, died July 11, following a long illness.

He was born March 2, 1941. He attended The Kinkaid School and Lanier Junior High School in Houston before graduating from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1959. He attended Princeton University, graduating in 1963 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, Hutcheson was a member of The University Cottage Club and chairman of The Princeton Tiger, one of the nation’s oldest college humor magazines. He received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 1966, where he was an associate editor of the Texas Law Review and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.