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Hobby was an easy winner in most of his elections, including a high-profile race in 1982 in which he defeated the Republican nominee George Strake, Jr., also a Houston businessman, a former Secretary of State of Texas, and later the Republican state chairman.
Robert Anderson Irion (1804–1861), physician, surveyor and Secretary of State of Texas