Thomas Chipman McRae was an American attorney and politician from Arkansas. He served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and the 26th Governor of Arkansas,from 1921 to 1925.
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.
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.
William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive 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 reelection in 1986.
Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as Governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974,and as a member of the United States Senate for 24 years from 1974 to 1999. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor,governor,and United States senator in Kentucky history. He was the Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999,and was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election as governor in 1971 until he retired from the Senate in 1999. At the time of his retirement he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history,a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell in 2009. Ford is the last Democrat to have served as a Senator from the state of Kentucky.
William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 13th congressional district from 1995 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,Thornberry represented the most Republican district in the United States by partisan voting index. The district covers the Texas Panhandle and stretched between the Oklahoma and New Mexico borders.
Thomas Chester Edwards is an American politician who was a United States Representative from Texas,representing a district based in Waco,from 1991 to 2011. Previously,he served in the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1990. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Edwards was on Barack Obama's vice presidential shortlist in 2008.
Robert Charles Krueger was an American diplomat,politician,and U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Texas,a U.S. Ambassador,and a member of the Democratic Party. As of 2024,he is the last Democrat to serve as a United States Senator from Texas.
The 1984 United States Senate elections were held on November 6,with the 33 seats of Class 2 contested in regular elections. They coincided with the landslide re-election of President Ronald Reagan in the presidential election. In spite of the lopsided presidential race,Reagan's Republican Party suffered a net loss of two Senate seats to the Democrats,although it retained control of the Senate with a reduced 53–47 majority.
Texas's 7th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives comprises a small area of southwestern Houston and Harris County,along with a northern portion of suburban Fort Bend County. As of the 2000 census,the 7th district comprises 651,620 people. Since 2019,it has been represented by Democrat Lizzie Fletcher.
Earle Chester Clements was a Kentucky politician. He represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and was its 47th Governor,serving from 1947 to 1950,after serving in the state Senate. For 25 years,he was the leader of a faction of the state's Democratic Party that stood in opposition to the faction led by two-time governor and senator A. B. "Happy" Chandler.
Bruce Reynolds Alger was an American politician,real estate agent and developer,and a Republican U.S. representative from Texas,the first to have represented a Dallas district since Reconstruction. He served from 1955 until 1965. Though born in Dallas,Alger was reared in Webster Groves,Missouri,a small suburb of St. Louis.
Harry McLeary Wurzbach was an American attorney and politician. He was the first Republican elected to the United States House of Representatives from Texas since Reconstruction to be elected for more than two terms and was re-elected to the Sixty-eighth,Sixty-ninth,and Seventieth congresses,representing Texas's 14th congressional district for several terms,from 1921 to 1929. He was re-elected in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and died in office. The first Republican elected from Texas who was born in the state,he was the only Republican from Texas serving in Congress during this period.
Bertram Thomas Combs was an American jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. After serving on the Kentucky Court of Appeals,he was elected the 50th Governor of Kentucky in 1959 on his second run for the office. Following his gubernatorial term,he was appointed to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President Lyndon B. Johnson,serving from 1967 to 1970.
Charles Wayne Dowdy is an American politician,lawyer and jurist from Mississippi. He was first elected in a 1981 special election and served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. He later served as chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party.
Susan Combs is an American politician,having served elected office in Texas and served as the Assistant Secretary of Policy,Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior as an appointed official under President Donald J. Trump.
William Hose Flores Sr. is an American businessman,the Vice Chair of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT),as well as the interim Chair of ERCOT.
The 1986 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1986,to elect the governor of Texas. The election was a rematch of the 1982 election,as incumbent Democratic governor Mark White ran for reelection against former Republican governor Bill Clements. Clements was elected to a second,non-consecutive term as governor,winning 53% of the vote to White's 46%. As of 2023,this is the last time Grimes and Chambers counties have voted for the Democratic nominee for governor.
The 1982 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas occurred on November 2,1982,to elect the members of the state of Texas's delegation to the United States House of Representatives. Texas had twenty-seven seats in the House,up three from the 1970s,apportioned according to the 1980 United States census.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on November 8,2022,to elect the 38 U.S. representatives from Texas,one from each of the state's 38 congressional districts. The state gained two seats after the results of the 2020 census. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,other elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. Primary elections took place on March 1,with primary runoffs scheduled for May 24 for districts where no candidate received over 50% of the vote.
