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9 unusual facts about Texas House of Representatives


Blue Lacy

House Concurrent Resolution No. 108 was adopted by the Texas House of Representatives on May 15, 2005, and by the Senate ten days later on May 25, 2005.

Cy-Fair High School

Dan Kubiak, member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983 and again from 1991 to 1998, taught and coached at Cy-Fair from 1963

Jacob De Cordova

After living in Galveston, De Cordova moved to Houston, Texas where he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives to the second Texas Legislature in the year 1847.

James Charles Wilson

He lived in Brazoria, Texas where he became district clerk before representing Calhoun, Jackson, Matagorda, and Wharton counties in the House of Representatives of the Third and Fourth Legislatures from 1848 to 1853.

Sharpstown scandal

"Dirty Thirty" was the name given to thirty members of the 1971 Texas House of Representatives who grouped against Texas Speaker of the House Gus Mutscher and other Texas officials charged in the Sharpstown scandal.

Tarrant County, Texas

In Arlington all three of the Texas House of Representatives districts are Republican following the 2010 elections.

Texas House of Representatives, District 4

Morales, a Kaufman schoolteacher, is best known for his unsuccessful 1996 race for U.S. Senate against Republican Phil Gramm.

Texas House of Representatives, District 64

The current representative for District 64 is Republican Myra Crownover, who has served the district since 2000 when she was selected to complete the unexpired term left by her late husband, local veterinarian Dr. Ronny Crownover, who died in March 2000.

W. Winfred Moore

Other receiving the same accolade were former State Representative Malouf Abraham, Sr., of Canadian, Texas, former State Senators Grady Hazlewood, Max Sherman and Teel Bivins, and former Amarillo Mayor and Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson.


Arlene Wohlgemuth

Wohlgemuth served as a Representative from District 58 in the Texas House of Representatives in the Seventy-fourth through Seventy-eighth Texas Legislatures representing Bosque and Johnson counties in north central Texas.

Como, Texas

State Representative Erwin Cain practices law in Sulphur Springs but resides in Como with his wife and three children.

Corwin Amendment

In 1963, more than a century after the Corwin Amendment was submitted to the state legislatures by the Congress, a joint resolution to ratify it was introduced in the Texas House of Representatives by Dallas Republican Henry Stollenwerck.

Frank L. Madla

Madla had maintained his Senate seat without opposition until successfully challenged in the Democratic primary held in March 2006 by the District 118 state representative, Carlos I. "Charlie" Uresti.

Hubert Vo

Vo currently serves as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing the 149th District which contains part of Harris County including part of west Houston and the suburbs of Alief and Katy.

Jerry E. Patterson

In the 2002 Republican primary for Texas land commissioner, Patterson defeated Kenn George of Dallas, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 108 and an assistant secretary of commerce in the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan.

John Henry Raney

:For the Texas state representative, see John N. Raney.

Mike Krusee

Michael J. “Mike” Krusee (born February 26, 1959) is the departing Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 52, based about Round Rock in Williamson County.

Myra Crownover

During the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, Crownover served on the Appropriations Committee of the Texas House of Representatives.

Polly Chandler

After graduation, Chandler moved to Austin, Texas began exhibiting in galleries and museums and became the photographer for the Texas House of Representatives.

Robert Dean Hunter

In 1986 Hunter became the first Republican since the Reconstruction Era to represent Abilene, Texas, in the Texas Legislature, where he served until retiring in 2006 from the Texas House of Representatives.

Terrell, Texas

Current Texas State Representative Lance Gooden is a native of Terrell.

Texas Forensic Science Commission

House Bill 1068, authored by Texas Senate members Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa and John Whitmire and Texas House of Representatives member Joe Driver, added 38.01 Texas Forensic Science Commission ("FSC"), specifying the establishment of the agency.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1974

Frances Farenthold, former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Nueces and Kleberg counties from 1969-1973; ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1972 Democratic primary runoff

Van Taylor

Taylor's father, Nicholas C. Taylor, served on the board of Midland-based Mexco Energy with Tom Craddick, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

Wayland Baptist University

The Malouf Abraham Family Arts Center on the Wayland campus was endowed by the family of the late State Representative Malouf Abraham, Sr., and his son, Malouf Abraham, Jr., a retired allergist and active art collector from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle.


see also

Charles F. Howard

In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress.

David Dickson

David Catchings Dickson (1818–1880), Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives

Hugh Allen

Joseph Hugh Allen (1940–2008), Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives

Moises Vela

He worked as a staff member in the Texas House of Representatives, serving as committee clerk and legislative director for State Representative Rene Oliveira, and then committee clerk for Senator Eddie Bernice Johnson, working to support the Interim Committee on Minority and Women Business Ownership Opportunities.

Richard Williamson

Ric Williamson (1952–2007), chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission and member of the Texas House of Representatives

Todd Ames Hunter

At the start of his sixth term, during the 82nd Legislative Session, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus, named Hunter as Chairman of the Calendars Committee.

Waterfield

Richard A. Waterfield (1939–2007), member of the Texas House of Representatives