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Vernon is a city in Wilbarger County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, Vernon population was 11,660; it was 11,077 in the 2005 census estimate. Vernon is the county seat of Wilbarger County.

Vernon is the birthplace of rock and roll singer/musician Roy Orbison and jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden. It is the hometown of country singer Kaye Adams. Lawyer Kenneth Starr (special prosecutor of Bill Clinton) was born in 1946 in nearby Lockett, Texas.

Vernon is represented in the United States House of Representatives by the Republican William "Mac" Thornberry of Clarendon.

Major businesses and industries in Vernon include a Tyson Foods, formerly Wright Brand Foods, Inc., bacon processing plant, a Rhodia, Inc. guar processing plant, North Texas State Hospital, which is operated by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (MH-MR), Victory Field Correctional Academy, a juvenile detention facility operated by the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) and a Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center.

Vernon College, a two-year junior college, is located here and also has a campus in Wichita Falls. Some major academic programs offered by Vernon College include cosmetology, nursing and many vocational technical programs.

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