Lee Patrick Brown is an American politician,criminologist and businessman;in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston,Texas. He was re-elected twice to serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004.
Robert Christopher Bell is an American politician,attorney,and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five years on the Houston City Council from 1997 to 2001,followed by one term in the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 25th Congressional District in Houston from 2003 to 2005.
Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District,Southwest Houston,Texas It was one of the first communities to be built as a master-planned,automobile centered community and the first in Houston. Frank Sharp (1906–1993),the developer of the subdivision,made provisions not only for homes but also for schools,shopping and recreation areas. While this model has been duplicated countless times in the past fifty years,at the time it was quite revolutionary,attracting national media attention. The development was dedicated on March 13,1955.
Texas's 22nd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers a largely suburban south-central portion of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The district includes the majority of Fort Bend County,including most of the cities of Sugar Land,Missouri City,Rosenberg,Needville and the county seat of Richmond as well as the county's share of the largely unincorporated Greater Katy area west of Houston. In addition,the district also contains portions of northern Brazoria County,including Pearland and Alvin,as well as a small portion of southeast Harris County centered on Friendswood.
The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston,Texas,United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department,serving the fourth-largest city in the United States. Its headquarters are at 1200 Travis in Downtown Houston.
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member,serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.
The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas.
The politics of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas are complex and constantly shifting in part because the city is one of the fastest growing major cities in the United States and is the largest without zoning laws. Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837. The city is the county seat of Harris County. A portion of southwest Houston extends into Fort Bend County and a small portion in the northeast extends into Montgomery County.
Gulfton is a community in Southwest Houston,Texas,United States that includes a 3.2 sq mi (8.3 km2) group of apartment complexes that primarily house refugee and immigrant populations. It is located between the 610 Loop and Beltway 8,west of the City of Bellaire,southeast of Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59,and north of Bellaire Boulevard.
Clarence O'Neal Bradford,known as C.O. "Clarence" Bradford,is a Houston City Council member,a former chief of police of Houston,Texas,and in 2008 an unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for District Attorney of Harris County,Texas. On November 3,2009,Bradford was elected to the Houston City Council from At-large Position 4 and took office January 2,2010. In the 2011 election,Bradford won a second term as a Houston City Councilmember.
Adrian Garcia is an American politician and the current County Commissioner for Precinct 2 in Harris County,Texas. Garcia spent 23 years with the Houston Police Department,before becoming a city councilman. Garcia served six years as a Houston City Councilman,eventually becoming Mayor Pro-Tempore under former Mayor Bill White. In 2008,he became Sheriff of Harris County. In 2015,Garcia stepped down from post as Sheriff to run for Mayor of the City of Houston. Garcia won the general election to be Commissioner of Precinct 2 for Harris County on November 6,2018,after advancing from the primary on March 6,2018.
Robert Edwin Talton,Sr.,is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 144 in Pasadena in Harris County,near Houston,Texas. His service extended from 1993 to 2009.
Orlando Sanchez is an American politician,elected three times as Treasurer of Harris County,Texas (2006),2010,and 2014. Dylan Osborne was elected to succeed him in the November,2018 election that saw most Republicans in county-wide offices replaced by Democrats.
Jared Ryker Woodfill V is a Texas lawyer and political figure who was chairman of the Harris County Republican Party who from 2002 to 2014. He was elected chairman of the county party for six two-year terms. After being ousted from the chairmanship of the county party in 2014,Woodfill launched two unsuccessful campaigns for the chairmanship of the Texas Republican Party. Woodfill is known for his socially conservative views activism,including his opposition to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance,which was repealed in a 2015 referendum.
Briscoe Cain is an American attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 128.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas was held on November 3,2020,to elect the 36 U.S. representatives from the state of Texas,one from each of the state's 36 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the U.S. Senate and various state and local elections. Primaries were held on March 3 and run-offs were held on July 14.
August Lee Pfluger II is an American politician and retired military officer from the state of Texas. He is the U.S. representative for Texas's 11th congressional district. Pfluger succeeded fellow Republican Mike Conaway in 2021.
Gregory R. Travis is a Houston politician and attorney that represents District G on the Houston City Council.
Steven Forrest Hotze is an American talk-radio host,physician,and activist. He is known as a supporter of a variety of right-wing political causes:against protections for LGBT people,against vaccine mandates to fight COVID,and as a proponent of Donald Trump's false claims that he was cheated in the 2020 presidential election. Hotze is presently under indictment for aggravated assault for his alleged involvement in a voting-fraud investigation that resulted in a private investigator attacking and holding at gunpoint an air conditioning equipment repairman.
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