Lyndon Baines Johnson,also known as LBJ,was the 36th president of the United States,serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy,under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Democrat from Texas,Johnson previously served as a U.S. representative and U.S. senator.
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive coursework in the fields of international development,foreign policy,science and technology,and economics and finance through its undergraduate (AB) degrees,graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA),Master of Public Policy (MPP),and PhD degrees.
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature,with the Texas House of Representatives being the lower house. Together,they compose the state legislature of the state of Texas.
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.
Robert Clifton Weaver was an American economist,academic,and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1966 to 1968,when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Weaver was the first African American to be appointed to a US Cabinet-level position.
Xavier Rodriguez is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Rodriguez was previously a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 2001 to 2002.
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970. The school offers training in public policy analysis and administration in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors. Degree programs include a Master of Public Affairs (MPAff),a mid-career MPAff sequence,16 MPAff dual degree programs,a Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS),eight MGPS dual degree programs,an Executive Master of Public Leadership,and a Ph.D. in public policy.
Joaquin Castro is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who has represented Texas's 20th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2013. The district includes just over half of his native San Antonio. He currently serves on the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Emmette Redford was an American political scientist. He attended Midland College,Midland,Texas and Southwest Texas State Teachers College,finally graduating from The University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1933. He was born in San Antonio,Texas. He grew up in Johnson City,Texas at the same time as Lyndon B. Johnson,and Redford and Johnson knew each other when they were children.
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.
Lyle Thomas Larson is an American politician and businessman who served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 122nd district from 2011 to 2023. He was first elected to the state House in 2010 to succeed fellow Republican Frank Corte Jr.
Jose Antonio Menendez is an American politician who is a member of the Texas Senate for District 26. A member of the Democratic Party,he is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 124. He won a special election on February 17,2015,for the state Senate,to replace Leticia Van de Putte. She resigned to run,unsuccessfully as it developed,against the short-term incumbent,Ivy Taylor,for mayor of San Antonio,Texas. Menendez handily defeated fellow Democratic State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer for the right to succeed Van de Putte. Even though Menendez and Fischer remain political opponents,their relationship appears to have been civil.
Eric Lynn Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as the 60th mayor of Dallas,Texas,since June 2019. A Republican since September 2023,Johnson previously served as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives,where he represented the 100th District in the cities of Dallas and Mesquite.
Roland Gutierrez is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Gutierrez has served as a member of the Texas Senate since 2021,representing District 19. He formerly served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 2008 to 2021. On July 10,2023,Gutierrez announced his candidacy in the 2024 United States Senate election in Texas,in which he finished second in the Democratic primary.
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 election was officially nonpartisan.
Francis Michel Bator was a Hungarian-American economist and educator. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard Kennedy School of political economy. He was born in Budapest,Hungary. Bator attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. in 1956. He was Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States from 1965 to 1967. He was also a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
James Dell Talarico is an American politician and former teacher. He was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2018 to represent District 52,which includes the cities of Round Rock,Taylor,Hutto,and Georgetown in Williamson County. Following the 2020 redistricting cycle,Talarico announced his run for a seat in District 50 in 2022,which he won. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Claudia Ordaz is an American politician. As a member of the Democratic Party,she currently serves in the Texas House of Representatives for the 79th District of El Paso’s northeast and eastside,which includes the El Paso International Airport and Fort Bliss,the country’s largest installation in the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM).
