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Notable Texas Political Leaders in the Late-20th Century
William Bill Clements
William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr., was the 42nd and 44th governor of Texas, serving from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1987 to 1991. Clements was the first Republican to have served as governor of the U.S. state of Texas since Reconstruction.
Ann Richards
Sheila Jackson Lee
jackson Lee graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens. She earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. An African-American, she is the first registered nurse elected to the U.S. Congress.
kay bailey hutchison
kay Bailey Hutchison is a former United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. She married her first husband, John Pierce Parks, a medical student, on April 8, 1967 (age 23); they divorced in 1969.[3] She married her second husband, Ray Hutchison, in Dallas on March 16, 1978.[4] They have two adopted children: Kathryn Bailey and Houston Taylor, both adopted in 2001. She also has two stepdaughters, Brenda and Julie, from her husband's previous marriage. Ray Hutchison is a former member of the Texas Legislature, a former state Republican chairman, and ran an unsuccessful bid for the Texas governorship, having lost the Republican nomination in 1978 to Bill Clements, a senior partner with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, of Dallas.
Kay Granger
from Texas's 12th district. Granger was born in Greenville, Texas, and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, where she attended Eastern Hills High School, which recognized her as a Distinguished Eastern Hills High School Graduate in 1993.[2] She graduated from Texas Wesleyan University. She was elected to the Fort Worth city council in 1989 and was elected Mayor in 1991.
Henry Cisneros
born :
June 11, 1947 age 67.
Prior to his Cabinet position, Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of his hometown of San Antonio.
George W Bush
eorge Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946)
he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter.
Rick Perry
Born: March 4, 1950 (age 65), Paint Creek, TX
Perry was elected to full gubernatorial terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010 and is the fourth Texas governor (after Allan Shivers, Price Daniel, and John Connally) to serve three terms. With a tenure in office to date of 14 years, 117 days, Perry was, at the time he left office, the second longest serving current U.S. governor
Greg Abbot
born in November 13, 1957 (age 57).
Abbott was born on November 13, 1957 in Wichita Falls, Texas. His mother, the former Doris Lechristia Jacks, was a homemaker, and his father, Calvin Roger Abbott, was a stockbroker and insurance agent.[2][3] When he was six years old they moved to Longview and the family lived in the East Texas city for six years.[2]
At the beginning of junior high school, Abbott's family moved to Duncanville in Dallas County. In his sophomore year in high school, his father died of a heart attack,