- Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann (Willis) Richards (September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006) was an American politician and teacher from Texas. She first came to national attention as the Texas state treasurer, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994. Born during the start of the Depression in rural Texas, … - Henry Cuellar
Henry Roberto Cuellar (born September 19, 1955) is a Democratic politician from Laredo, Texas, representing the state's 28th Congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Cuellar's district extends from the Rio Grande to the suburbs of San Antonio - Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr., (February 11 1921 - May 23 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the early years of the Clinton administration. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, … - David van Os
David Van Os has been a civil rights/labor lawyer for over 29 years. A dedicated Democrat, he a is co-founder of the Texas Progressive Populist Caucus, and receiver of the 2005 Backbone CampaignOs OSpine AwardO. David has proven day-in, day-out, that he stands for the PEOPLE of this great state, not its corporations. - Pete Laney
James E. "Pete" Laney (1943-) is a Democratic U.S. political figure from West Texas. He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives for thirty-four years from Hale Center (the seat of Hale County) near Plainview. Laney served as Speaker for ten years from 1993 to 2003, a record which tied his predecessor, fellow Democrat Gibson D. "Gib" Lewis of Fort Worth (the seat of Tarrant County), who served as speaker from 1983 to 1993. - Jack Brooks
Jack Bascom Brooks (born December 22, 1922) is a retired politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who served for more than 40 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Brooks was born in Crowley, Louisiana. Brooks attended Lamar University and University of Texas at Austin. Brooks served in the United States Marine Corps in World War II. Brooks served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1947 to 1951. - Borris Miles
Borris L. Miles (born 1965, Democrat) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 146. Miles was elected in 2006, defeating the 26 year incumbent Democrat, Al Edwards. He has been assigned to the Government Reform and Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committees. Miles drew attention in March of 2007 when he removed two paintings that he found offensive from a display in the state capitol. - Mark White
Mark Wells White (born 1940) is an American lawyer, who served as the forty-fourth Governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987. Born in Henderson, Texas, in Rusk County, White attended Baylor University in Waco, and was a member of the prestigious Tryon Coterie Club, now Phi Delta Theta (Texas Lambda Chapter) at Baylor. He graduated with a law degree in 1965. After spending time practicing law in a private practice in Houston (Harris County), … - Ralph Yarborough
Ralph Webster Yarborough (June 8, 1903 - January 27, 1996) was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate (1957 until 1971) and was a leader of the progressive or liberal wing of his party in his many races for statewide office. As a U.S. senator, he was a staunch supporter and author of "Great Society" legislation that encompassed Medicare and Medicaid, the War on Poverty, federal support for higher education and veterans. - Dan Morales
Daniel C. "Dan" Morales (born 1956) served as Texas attorney general from 1991 through 1999, during the administrations of Governors Dorothy Ann Willis Richards and George W. Bush. As attorney general, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies. He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the <i>Hopwood v. Texas</i> case, … - John Hill
John Luke Hill, Jr., was a Texas lawyer, Democratic politician, and judge. He is thus far the only person to have served as as Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. - Carlos Uresti
Carlos Ismael "Charlie" Uresti (born September 12, 1963) is a Democrat representing the 19th District in the Texas Senate. Uresti previously represented portions of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio in District 118 in the Texas House from 1997 to 2006. Uresti, the youngest of eight children, was born in Bexar County, Texas, reared in San Antonio and graduated from McCollum High School. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve at age eighteen, … - Richard Raymond
Richard Peña Raymond is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. He currently represents District 42, which encompasses western Webb County and includes most of the city of Laredo. He sits on the House Committees of Civil Practices and Criminal Jurisprudence. In 2005, he announced that he would run for Congress in the 2006 midterm elections, against fellow Democrat Henry Cuellar, who currently holds the seat for the 28th Congressional District. - Patrick Rose
Patrick Michael Rose (born 1978) is a Texas Democratic politician, currently serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Blanco, Caldwell and Hays Counties, located in Central Texas. Born 10 October 1978 in Travis County, Texas, to Kenneth Michael Rose and Bonnie Mae Barton, Rose is the youngest member of the Texas House. He was educated at Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree with high honors, and The University of Texas, … - Melissa Noriega
Melissa Meisgeier Noriega (1954-) is a member of the Houston City Council in Houston, Harris County, Texas, holding Place 3 At-Large. Noriega is an educator and civic leader in Houston and Harris County, Texas and former member of the Texas House of Representatives. - Preston Smith
Preston Earnest Smith was a Democratic governor of Texas from 1969-1973, and the lieutenant governor from 1963-1969. Smith was born into a tenant farming family of thirteen children in Williamson County near Austin. The family later moved to Lamesa in Dawson County on the Texas South Plains, where Smith graduated from high school. He thereafter graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and built a movie theater business by the middle 1940s. - Miriam A. Ferguson
Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson became the first female governor of Texas in 1925. She was born in Bell County, Texas. Her husband, James Edward Ferguson, the governor from 1915 to 1917, was impeached, convicted, and removed from office during his second term. Under terms of the conviction, he was not allowed to hold state office again. After her husband's impeachment and conviction, she ran as a Democrat for the office herself. - Al Edwards
Al Edwards (born 19 March 1937) was a member of the 78th and 79th Texas Legislature representing District 146. Edwards is most famously known for sponsoring a bill to ban the use of suggestive clothing by high school cheerleaders. In 1989, Edwards also sponsored a bill to punish drug dealers by having their fingers cut off. Edwards is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. - Ellen Cohen
Ellen Cohen is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 134. For the past 15 years, she has been President and CEO of the Houston Area Women’s Center, which is dedicated to eliminating domestic and sexual violence. In that capacity she leads a $5.5 million dollar, 120 person staff serving over six thousand women, children and men. Ellen and her late husband, Lyon, moved to Houston with their two children, Marcie and Eric, in 1977. - Paul Moreno
- Price Daniel
Marion Price Daniel, Sr. (October 10, 1910 - August 25, 1988) was a Democratic Party U.S. senator and politician from the state of Texas. Daniel was born in Dayton, Texas, and he graduated from Baylor University. He worked as a lawyer in Liberty County, Texas. Daniel won a seat in the Texas House of Representatives in 1939 as a Democrat. Daniel opposed Texas adopting a sales tax and he was elected Speaker of the House in 1943. - Aaron Peña
Aaron Peña, Jr. is a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Representative Peña represents a district in Hidalgo County in Deep South Texas. In November 2002, he was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat. Representative Peña is an attorney with the law firm of Rodriguez, Colvin, Chaney, and Saenz. He is married to Monica (Solis) and is the father to five children. - Gib Lewis
Gibson Donald "Gib" Lewis (born 1936) is a Democratic U.S. political figure from Fort Worth, Texas. He was the first person to be elected five times as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker in 1983 to succeed Billy Wayne "Bill" Clayton of Springlake in Lamb County. He was a key figure in passing the 1984 education act, designed by Ross Perot and Democratic Governor Mark Wells White, … - Craig Eiland
Allen Craig Eiland (born April 4, 1962) is a Democratic member of the Texas House, representing House District 23. District 23 includes Galveston, Jamaica Beach, Texas City and the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County and all of Chambers County. Prior to redistricting in 2003, Eiland represented House District 24, which roughly covered all of Galveston County west of Interstate 45. Eiland was first elected to the House in 1994. - John Brown
John “Red” Brown was a politician in the Republic of Texas and early statehood Texas who served briefly as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives during the First Texas Legislature. Brown was also one of the founders of the Democratic Party in Texas. Brown was probably born in Ireland on 30 August 1786. He moved to Texas in 1836 to near Nacogdoches. Early Texas census records list him as an Irishman and a farmer. - Phil Hardberger
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. - Joseph P. Heflin
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, … - Raul G. Salinas
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). - Bill W. Clayton
Billy Wayne “Bill” Clayton, was an American politician from West Texas who served as a state legislator for twenty years and was Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983, a tenure twice as long as that of any other presiding officer of the house elected before him. Clayton, a conservative Democrat from a rural area of the Texas South Plains, attained the speakership by successfully forging a broad-based House coalition. - William P. Hobby
William Pettus Hobby (March 26, 1878-June 7, 1964) was the publisher of the "Houston Post" and the governor of the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1921. Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the "Post" in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901. In 1907 he left the "Post" to become manager and part owner of the "Beaumont Enterprise", and he acquired the entire paper shortly thereafter. - Byron M. Tunnell
Byron Milton Tunnell (October 14, 1925 - March 7, 2000) was a state representative from 1957-1965, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1963 to 1965, and a member of the elected Texas Railroad Commission from 1965-1973. Tunnell was born in Tyler, the seat of Smith County and the largest city in east Texas, and educated in public schools. He graduated from Tyler High School and Tyler Junior College. - Joe Pickett
Joseph C. “Joe” Pickett is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 79th District. Pickett has represented the El Paso County district since 1995. - Edward M. House
Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 - March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, politician and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the honorific title of Colonel House, he had enormous personal influence with President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor until Wilson removed him in 1919. Born to a wealthy Texas landholding family, House was educated in New England prep schools and went on to study at Cornell University in 1877, … - Richard Coke
Richard Coke (March 13, 1829 - May 14, 1897) was an American lawyer, farmer, and statesman from Waco, Texas. He was governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876 and represented Texas in the U.S. Senate from 1877 to 1895. His uncle was Congressman Richard Coke, Jr.. Coke was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, to John and Eliza (Hankins) Coke. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1848 with a law degree. In 1850, he moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Waco. - Betty Flores
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. - Waggoner Carr
Vincent Waggoner Carr (October 1, 1918 - February 25, 2004) was the Democratic attorney general of Texas who lost the 1966 general election for the United States Senate to the Republican incumbent John Goodwin Tower (1925-1991). He was only the second Texas Democrat in state history to lose a statewide general election since Reconstruction to a Republican candidate. Tower received 842,501 votes (56.7 percent) to Carr's 643,855 (43.3 percent). - John Dowdy
John Vernard Dowdy (February 11, 1912 - April 12, 1995) was an American politician. Dowdy was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas from 1953 to 1967 and then served as a congressman from the 2nd District of Texas until 1973 when he decided to retire under indictment for bribery. According to prosecutors, he accepted a $25,000 bribe to intervene in the federal investigation of Monarch Construction Company of Silver Springs, … - James E. Ferguson
James Edward "Pa" Ferguson (August 31, 1871 - September 21, 1944) was a controversial United States politician from the state of Texas. - Earle Cabell
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., …
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