Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney,television correspondent,politician,diplomat,and was the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party,she was a United States Senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013.
William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark Wells White,a Democrat who defeated Clements in the 1982 election only to lose his campaign for re-election in 1986.
Kent Ronald Hance is an American politician and lawyer who is the former Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. In his role,he oversaw Texas Tech University,Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University in San Angelo,Texas. He is also a lobbyist and lawyer. Hance subsequently defeated future President George W. Bush and became a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from West Texas,having served from 1979 to 1985. After his congressional service,he switched to the Republican Party and in 1990 ran for governor of Texas,losing in the primary election.
Robert Schwarz Strauss was an influential figure in American politics,diplomacy,and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s,he was associated in Texas politics with the faction of the Democratic Party that was led by Johnson and John Connally. He served as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee between 1972 and 1977 and served under President Jimmy Carter as the U.S. Trade Representative and special envoy to the Middle East. He later served as the Ambassador to Russia under President George H.W. Bush. Strauss also served as the last United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
George Herman Mahon was a Texas politician who served twenty-two consecutive terms (1935–1979) as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Lubbock-based 19th congressional district. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
George Prescott Bush is an American politician and attorney who served as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,Bush unsuccessfully campaigned for the party's nomination in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election.
Kenneth Michael Conaway is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 11th congressional district from 2005 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district Conaway represented is located in West Texas and includes Midland,Odessa,San Angelo,Brownwood,and Granbury. Conaway led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections after the Intelligence Committee chair,Devin Nunes,recused himself. Aside from serving as the chair of the House Ethics Committee,he served as the chair of the House Agriculture Committee,and later its ranking member. Conaway indicated in July 2019 that he would not be seeking reelection. Conaway was succeeded by fellow Republican August Pfluger.
Larry Ed Combest is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
Jerry Emmett Patterson is an American politician who served as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 2003 to 2015. A former state senator,he was the second Republican since Reconstruction to serve as land commissioner,a post which he held for three terms. He served from the Houston area in District 11 in the Texas Senate from 1993 to 1999.
The 2002 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 5,2002,to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry,who had ascended to the governorship after the resignation of George W. Bush to become President of the United States,was elected to his first full term in office,winning 58% of the vote to Democrat Tony Sanchez's 40%.
The 1994 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1994,to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Democratic Governor Ann Richards was defeated in her bid for re-election by Republican nominee George W. Bush,the son of former President George H. W. Bush.
Thomas Gilbert Loeffler is an American politician and Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas. He served four terms from 1979 to 1987.
The 2008 elections for the Texas delegation of the United States House of Representatives was held on November 4,2008. 31 of 32 congressional seats that make up the state's delegation were contested. In Texas's 14th congressional district no one challenged incumbent Ron Paul. Since Representatives are elected for two-year terms,those elected will serve in the 111th United States Congress from January 4,2009,until January 3,2011.
James R. Pitts,known as Jim Pitts,is an American state politician and lawyer who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1993 to 2015. He was the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee for four legislative sessions. He is a Republican from Waxahachie in Ellis County,south of his native Dallas,Texas.
The 2010 Texas gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2010,to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry ran successfully for election to a third consecutive term. He won the Republican primary against U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and political newcomer,Debra Medina. The former mayor of Houston,Bill White,won the Democratic nomination. Kathie Glass,a lawyer from Houston and previous candidate for Texas Attorney General,won the Libertarian nomination. Deb Shafto was the nominee of the Texas Green Party. Andy Barron,an orthodontist from Lubbock,was a declared write-in candidate.
The 1990 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1990,to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Clements did not run for re-election,so the election pitted Democrat Ann Richards against Republican Clayton Williams. Richards narrowly defeated Williams on Election Day,winning 49.5% of the vote to Williams' 46.9%. As of 2023,this is the last time a Democrat,and a woman,was elected Governor of Texas.
Peter J. O'Donnell,Jr. was an American businessman,securities investor and philanthropist. From 1962 to 1969,he was the Texas Republican state chair. In 1963,he was also the national chair of the Draft Goldwater Committee.
Frederick Joseph Agnich was a Minnesota-born geophysicist who served from 1971 to 1987 as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. From 1972 to 1976,he was the Texas Republican National Committeeman.
James Anthony Goolsby,known as Tony Goolsby,was a businessman in Dallas,Texas,who,from 1993 to 2009,was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 102 in northeastern Dallas County. In two earlier terms,from 1989 to 1993,he represented District 114,also in Dallas County.
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