Bexar County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is San Antonio.
Henry Barbosa González was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas,who represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999. He is the longest serving Hispanic in Congress and a founding member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Frank Lloyd Madla Jr.,was for thirty-three years a Democratic member of both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas State Senate from the south side of San Antonio. Madla died in a house fire in the early morning hours on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day in 2006.
Leticia Rosa Magdalena Aguilar Van de Putte (née San Miguel;born December 6,1954) is an American politician from San Antonio,Texas. She represented the 26th District in the Texas Senate from 1999–2015. From 1991 to 1999,Van de Putte was a member of the Texas House of Representatives. In 2014,she was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor but lost the general election,58-39 percent,to her Republican senatorial colleague,Dan Patrick of Houston. Following that defeat,she then resigned from the Texas Senate to run for mayor of San Antonio,which she narrowly lost to Ivy Taylor,52-48 percent.
Pete Peña Gallego is an American lawyer,politician,and higher education leader who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district from 2013 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 68th district beginning in 1991. He was president of his alma mater,Sul Ross State University in Far West Texas,from 2020 through 2022 and continues to serve as president emeritus as he writes and speaks on issues related to college accessibility and affordability,particularly for first-generation students.
The Mexican American Legislative Caucus is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization composed of members of the Texas House of Representatives committed to addressing issues of particular importance to Latinos across the state.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate. Incumbent Republican senator and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn ran for re-election to a third term. Primary elections were held on March 4,2014. Since no Democratic candidate received over 50% in the first round of the primary,a runoff election was required on May 27,2014. David Alameel,who came in first in the primary,won the runoff and became his party's nominee. In the general election,Cornyn defeated Alameel in a landslide.
The 2014 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2014,to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry,who had served since the resignation of then-Governor George W. Bush on December 21,2000,declined to run for an unprecedented fourth full term,making this the first open election for governor of the state since 1990.
Donna Sue Campbell is an American politician and physician who is the 25th District member of the Texas Senate. On July 31,2012,she became the first person in Texas history to defeat an incumbent Republican senator,Jeff Wentworth of San Antonio,in a primary election.
Trey Martinez Fischer,legally Ferdinand Frank Fischer III,is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives who represents the San Antonio-based 116th District,serving since 2019. He previously held this seat from 2000 through 2017. In January 2017,he was succeeded in the position by Diana Arevalo,the secretary for the Bexar County Democratic Party. In 2018,he unseated Arevalo in the Democratic primary for his former state House seat. He won the subsequent general election on November 6 over the Republican nominee Fernando Padron,32,375 votes to 13,612. Martinez Fischer returned to the House in January 2019.
Philip Adam Cortez is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. He previously served as a State Representative for House District 117 during the 83rd Legislative Session. From 2007 to 2012,he was a member of the nominally nonpartisan San Antonio City Council,on which he was a firm ally of then Mayor Julian Castro.
Ivy Ruth Taylor is the former Mayor of San Antonio,Texas from 2014 through 2017,and the former president of Rust College in Holly Springs,Mississippi from 2017 through 2023. The former politician and urban planner was a nonpartisan officeholder,although she is registered as a Democrat. She was also the first African American to be elected mayor of San Antonio and only the second woman in that position. In addition,Taylor was the first female African-American mayor of a city with a population of more than one million.
On May 9,2015,the city of San Antonio,Texas,held an election to choose the next Mayor of San Antonio. Interim mayor Ivy Taylor ran for election to a full term and narrowly defeated former state senator Leticia Van de Putte in the runoff election on June 13,2015,to become the first African American elected to the position.
The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor of Texas,concurrently with the election of Texas's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other congressional,state and local elections throughout the United States and Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott won re-election to a second term in office defeating Democratic nominee Lupe Valdez,the former sheriff of Dallas County,and Libertarian nominee Mark Tippetts,a former member of the Lago Vista city council.
Tomas Uresti is a Democratic former member of the Texas House of Representatives who represented District 118. He won the November 2016 general election and was sworn into office on January 10,2017. Uresti was defeated in the Democratic primary on March 6,2018.
Laura Thompson is a former Independent member of the Texas House of Representatives. She represented District 120 after winning a special election on August 2,2016,after former state representative Ruth McClendon retired. In the November 2016 general election,she ran for election to a full term but was defeated by Barbara Gervin-Hawkins. Thompson's brief tenure in the Texas House ended on January 9,2017. Thompson was the first Independent to serve in the Texas Legislature in over fifty years.
On May 6,2017,the city of San Antonio,Texas held an election to choose the next mayor of San Antonio. As no candidate secured a majority of the vote,a runoff was held on June 10,2017 with Councilman Ron Nirenberg defeating incumbent mayor Ivy Taylor.
Diana Jennifer Arévalo is an American politician,who is a Democratic former member of the Texas House of Representatives,representing the 116th District. She ran unopposed in the November 2016 general election after defeating two opponents in the Democratic primary. Arévalo served on the Rules and Resolutions,Defense and Veteran's Affairs,and Public Health committees.
Leo Pacheco is an American educator and politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives from January 8,2019,to August 19,2021,representing the 118th district.
