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.
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.
Robert Franklin Deuell,known as Bob Deuell is a physician from Greenville,Texas,and a former Republican member of the Texas Senate. He entered office in 2003 and represented the ten counties of Senate District 2 in the northeastern portion of the state. His term ended in 2015.
Kyle Janek is an American physician and former Republican member of the Texas Senate,having represented District 17 from November 2002 until June 2,2008. The district includes portions of Harris,Brazoria,Fort Bend,Galveston,and Jefferson counties. Janek was not a candidate for renomination to the state Senate in the Republican primary held on March 4.
Kenneth Kimberlin Brimer Jr.,known as Kim Brimer,is a Republican former member of the Texas State Senate from Fort Worth,Texas. He represented District 10. He was the only GOP member of the 31-member chamber to have been defeated in the general election held on November 4,2008,when he lost to Democrat Wendy R. Davis of Fort Worth,her party's 2014 nominee for governor against Republican Greg Abbott.
John Harris Whitmire is an American attorney and politician who is the 63rd mayor of Houston,Texas,the most populous city in Texas. A member of the Democratic Party,Whitmire was a member of the Texas State Senate from 1983 to 2023,representing District 15,which included much of northern Houston.
Texas's 25th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives stretches from Arlington and Fort Worth to some of its outer southwestern suburbs,as well as rural counties east of Abilene. The district's current Representative is Roger Williams.
District 17 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Brazoria,Fort Bend,and Harris county in the U.S. state of Texas.
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.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6,2012,along with other elections to the United States Senate the United States House of Representatives in additional states. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison decided to retire instead of running for reelection to a fourth full term. This was the first open seat in this seat since 1957.
Jean Kurtis Schodorf,a former three-term Republican Kansas state senator,was the Democratic Party nominee for Kansas Secretary of State in 2014. She was defeated on November 4,2014 by incumbent Kris Kobach by a margin of 59%-41%.
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.
Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia is an American lawyer and politician who has been serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 29th congressional district since 2019. Her district covers much of eastern Houston. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously represented the 6th district in the Texas Senate.
Maryann Garza Perez is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for House District 144 in Harris County,Texas. Perez previously served one term from 2013 to 2015. An insurance agent,she is a former member of the trustees of Houston Community College.
Charles Brandon Creighton is an American attorney and politician from Conroe,Texas,who is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from District 4,and a former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 16.
Steve Hixson Toth is an American businessman and politician serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 15,The Woodlands area.
Konni Lyn Burton is an American businesswoman who is a Republican former member of the Texas State Senate for District 10. Backed by the Tea Party movement,Burton on January 13,2015,succeeded Wendy R. Davis of Fort Worth,who vacated the state Senate after her unsuccessful campaign as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in the 2014 Texas gubernatorial election.
Thomas John Oliverson is an American politician and anesthesiologist who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 130.
Peter J. Lucido is an American Republican politician. He currently serves as the prosecutor of Macomb County,Michigan. He formerly served as a member of the Michigan Senate,and was Senate Majority Whip.
The 2022 Texas elections were held on November 8,2022. Primary elections were held on March 1,with runoffs held on May 24 for primary candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote.
