Phil Hardberger was elected Mayor of San Antonio on June 7, 2005. A veteran public servant, Hardberger was the first Mayor in modern San Antonio history ever to have been elected from outside the City Council. A Texas native, Hardberger served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force where he piloted the B-47 bomber. He then went on to serve as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Peace Corps and as Assistant Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.

Carole Keeton Strayhorn (born September 13, 1939) is the former Texas state comptroller of public accounts, a position that now includes most of the duties of the former state treasurer, a position abolished by Texas voters in 1996. Elected to the comptroller's post in 1998 as a Republican, Strayhorn ran as an independent candidate for Texas governor against GOP incumbent James Richard "Rick" Perry.

Kelton Gray “Kel” Seliger is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 31 in the Panhandle and the Permian Basin. Seliger was sworn in to the Texas Senate on March 2, 2004, to complete the term of Teel Bivins of Amarillo, who obtained a diplomatic appointment from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Seliger was reelected to serve a full, four-year term on November 4, 2004.

Tommy Joe Vandergriff (born January 29, 1926) is the recently retired county judge for Tarrant County, Texas. He served as Mayor of Arlington from 1951 to 1977 and as a U.S. Congressman from the 26th Texas Congressional District from 1983-1985. He is best known as being influential in bringing Major League Baseball to North Texas; While serving as mayor of Arlington, …

Mayor Moncrief is a successful Fort Worth business owner involved in various community and civic affairs. He also has served as an elected official at the county and state levels for 26 years. Mayor Moncrief served for two years as a Texas House representative (1971-1972), 12 years as Tarrant County judge (1974-1986) and 12 years as Texas State senator (1991-2003). As a state representative, Mayor Moncrief served on five major committees, including the Appropriations Committee.

Earle Cabell, was a Texas politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was later a U.S. Representative. He was the brother of Charles Cabell, who was deputy CIA director until he was forced to resign in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Cabell attended Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University. After returning from college, he founded, along with his brothers, Cabell's Inc., …

Giles Connell McCrary, Sr. (born November 5, 1919), is a self-employed oil operator, investor, art collector, rancher, and the owner of the OS Ranch Museum in Post, the seat of Garza County, southeast of Lubbock on the Texas South Plains. A strong civic leader, McCrary was the mayor of Post from 1969-1991; in Texas, all mayors are elected on a nonpartisan ballot.

Kay Granger (born January 18 1943), a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas, currently represents the 12th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Granger was born in Greenville, Texas, and graduated from Texas Wesleyan University. She was elected to the Fort Worth city council in 1989 and was elected Mayor in 1991. Her tenure as mayor saw a drop in violent crime, …

James Harlan "Jim" Granberry, Sr. (born 1932), is a former mayor of Lubbock, Texas, who guided his city through a series of tornadoes that shattered the region on May 11, 1970. He imposed a curfew to restore order after the storm. Granberry had just become mayor when the storms occurred. He served only one two-year term from 1970-1972. He was a member of the Lubbock City Council from 1966-1970. He did not seek a second two-year term in 1972.

Joseph Paul "Joe" Heflin (born January 6, 1952) is the only Democrat to represent either West Texas or the Panhandle in the Texas House of Representatives. Heflin is a trial lawyer from Crosbyton, the seat of Crosby County near Lubbock. He defeated a vigorous Republican challenger in District 85, James Franklin "Jim" Landtroop, Jr. (born ca. 1968), of Plainview, the seat of Hale County, in the general election held on November 7, 2006, …

Kathryn Jean "Kathy" Whitmire (born 29 October 1946) was Mayor of the city of Houston, Texas, from 1982 to 1991. Whitmire was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park where she taught political science classes in the Burns Leadership Academy. Whitmire was the daughter of Ida Reeves and Carl Neiderhoffer. She was married to James M. (Jim) Whitmire who died in 1976. Whitmire holds a BBA and MSA. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and community leader. He was the first person of Hispanic background elected as mayor of a large American city, and later served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. He left public office after pleading guilty to making false statements to federal officials.

John Richard "Dick" Fowler (February 17, 1927 - March 23, 2007) was a registered pharmacist, small businessman, school board member, city councilman, and civic leader in Memphis, the seat of Hall County, Texas, in the southern Panhandle. Professionally, he was a past president of the West Texas Pharmaceutical Association. Governor John B. Connally, Jr., named him to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, an independent regulatory agency.

Elizabeth Garcia Flores, better known as Betty Flores (born December 28, 1944), is a businesswoman who was the first female mayor of Laredo, Texas. She served a brief unexpired mayoral term followed by two four-year terms from 1998-2006. She is best known as the driving force behind the building of the Laredo Entertainment Center, home of the Laredo Bucks hockey team.

Raul Gonzalez Salinas (born November 8, 1947) is a private security consultant and a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who was elected mayor of Laredo, Texas, on June 17, 2006. A self-styled political outsider, Salinas defeated 8-year city councilman John Clifford Galo (born (1958) by almost exactly 1,000 ballots in a low-turnout election: 9,665 votes (52.75 percent) to 8,657 (47.25 percent).

Aldo J. Tatangelo (born September 16, 1913) is a retired businessman who was the "reform" mayor of Laredo, Texas, from 1978-1990. Tatangelo is often credited with having obtained the paving of the "streets of Laredo" (a term made famous in an old western song). Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor J.C. "Pepe" Martin, Jr., who, like Martin's father before him, exerted vast powers as a "political boss" in south Texas.

J. E. Sherrill, Jr. (October 10, 1925 - February 4, 2007), was a public official in Bovina, a small city in Parmer County in the Texas Panhandle. He was an alderman, mayor, school board member, and municipal judge, having served in the last position from 1997 until his death. He was mayor for two two-year terms under the traditional mayor-council system from April 1956 to April 1960, well before Bovina adopted the city manager form of government in 1976.

Phil Hardberger was elected Mayor of San Antonio on June 7, 2005. A veteran public servant, Hardberger was the first Mayor in modern San Antonio history elected from outside the City Council. Mayor Hardberger has overseen a period of economic growth, rising prosperity and stability in San Antonio, the nation's seventh-largest city. He has addressed basic concerns about city services and infrastructure while striving to elevate San Antonio's overall quality of life.