- Jim Pitts
James R. (Jim) Pitts (born 1947) is an American state politician and lawyer who currently serves in the Texas House of Representatives. The Waxahachie Republican challenged sitting Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick for leadership of that body during the 80th Texas Legislature with a "Move to Vacate the Chair".
- Jim Dunnam
James R. (Jim) Dunnam (born 1963) is an American state politician and lawyer who currently serves in the Texas House of Representatives. As the House Democratic Leader, Dunnam is best known for engineering the Killer D's walkout to Ardmore, Okla., to postpone consideration of Tom DeLay's mid-decade redistricting plan. The walkout is credited with starting serious media inquiry into DeLay's actions as majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, …
- Rick Noriega
Richard Joel "Rick" Noriega is a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 145 in eastern Houston as a member of the Democratic Party. He has formed an exploratory committee for the Texas United States Senate election, 2008 and if he decides to run, will face lawyer Mikal Watts in the Democratic primary.
- 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.
- Phil King
Phillip Stephen "Phil" King (born February 29, 1956) is a Weatherford, Texas, attorney who has been a conservative Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1999. He represents District 61, which encompasses Parker and Wise counties to the west of Fort Worth.
- Warren Chisum
Warren Darrel Chisum (born July 4, 1938) is a staunchly conservative Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from the Panhandle city of Pampa, a community of some 20,000 people and the seat of Gray County. He has served in the state House since 1989. A key lieutenant of Speaker Thomas Russell "Tom" Craddick, Sr., of Midland, Chisum is the incoming 2007 chairman of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee.
- Garnet Coleman
Garnet F. Coleman (born 1961) has served the people of District 147 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/District147.jpg map) in the Texas House of Representatives continuously since 1991. Coleman graduated from Jack Yates High School in Houston and the University of Saint Thomas in Houston. Coleman's legislative efforts have been recognized in numerous ways including being named to the prestigious "Texas Monthly" Ten Best Legislators List on two occasions.
- Bob Bullock
Robert D. (Bob) Bullock was an American Democratic politician from Texas. With a political career spanning over forty years in Texas, Bullock ended this long career as Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1991–1999 during the terms of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. After a stint as an assistant attorney general and in the private practice of law, Bullock returned to public life when he was appointed secretary of state, …
- Scott Hochberg
Scott Hochberg (born 1953) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives representing District 137 in southwest Houston. The district includes Gulfton, Sharpstown, Briarmeadow, Shenandoah, Piney Point, and nearby communities.
- 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
- John Carona
John Joseph Carona (born 14 December 1955) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 16th District. First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County. His current senate term runs through the end of the Eightieth Texas Legislature in 2009. Previously, Carona was elected to three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
- Jimmie Don Aycock
Jimmie Don Aycock (born October 14, 1946) is a semi-retired veterinarian, rancher, and businessman in Killeen who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected in District 54 on November 7, 2006, to succeed fellow Republican Representative Suzanna Hupp, the chief architect of the Texas law which permits citizens to carry a concealed weapon. Hupp, a survivor of the Luby's massacre in Killeen in 1991, did not seek reelection.
- Helen Giddings
Helen Giddings is a member of the Texas House of Representatives. In 2003, she was arrested after attempting to avoid attending a house session regarding congressional redistricting. In 2003, Texas Democrats from the state House made national headlines when they travelled across the state border to Oklahoma en masse to deny a quorum for voting on the redistricting plan. They effectively broke the bill for the time being.
- Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician from Texas. She served as a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.
- Hubert Vo
Hubert Vo (born 30 May 1956) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 149. He is the first and only Vietnamese American to be elected to the Texas legislature. Vo was born in South Vietnam and emigrated to the United States with his family to leave the communist government of Vietnam. Vo and Republican California State Assemblyman Van Tran are the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in the United States.
- David Swinford
David Anthony Swinford (born June 28, 1941) is an agricultural consultant from the Texas Panhandle who is an influential Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. Swinford represents District 87, which includes Carson, Moore, and Sherman counties and populous Potter County. Swinford's district office is located in Amarillo, the seat of Potter County, and his residence is in Dumas, the seat of Moore County, some fifty miles north of Amarillo.
- Carl Isett
Carl Hawkins Isett (born March 7, 1957) is a Certified Public Accountant from Lubbock who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1997. Isett was initially elected in House District 84 in 1996 to succeed Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, who was elected to the Texas State Senate. Isett defeated the Democrat Don Richards in what has become a strongly Republican legislative district.
- Gonzalo Barrientos
Gonzalo Barrientos, Jr. (born 20 July 1941) was a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 14th District from 1985 to 2007. He was also a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Austin from 1975 to 1985.
- Chris Harris
Chris Harris (born 19 February or 22 February 1948) is a Texas politician and attorney. He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991 and has been a member of the Texas Senate since 1991, representing District 9. He is a former acting governor of Texas.
- Norma Chavez
Norma Chavez (born 29 June 1960) is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 76 covering Ysleta and parts of El Paso in El Paso County. Chavez is seeking reelection in 2006 and faced challenger Martha "Marty" Reyes, an Ysleta Independent School District trustee, in the Democratic primary on March 7, 2006. Chavez easily won the Democratic primary election with seventy percent of the votes cast.
- 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.
- 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.
- Glenn Hegar
Glenn Allen Hegar, Jr. (born 25 November 1970) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 18th District. Hegar formerly represented the 28th District in the Texas House
- 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.
- 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, …
- Mike Villarreal
Michael U. “Mike” Villarreal is an American state politician serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from a district centered in north central San Antonio. A Democrat currently in his fifth term, Villarreal also works for San Antonio's SAMCO Capitol Markets, specializing in municipal finance, and teaches political science as an adjunct professor at St. Mary's University.
- Roger Williams
Roger Williams (born ca. 1950) is the former secretary of state for the U.S. state of Texas, having served from November 2004 until his resignation effective July 1, 2007. Williams announced on June 11 that he would leave the appointed position to "pursue other opportunities". He did not say if he intends to seek elected office. In Texas, the secretary of state must resign if he enters a political race.
- Gene Green
Raymond Eugene "Gene" Green (born October 17, 1947) is a Democratic politician and a U.S. Congressman from the state of Texas, representing that state's 29th Congressional District. (map). The district includes most of eastern Houston, along with large portions of Houston's eastern suburbs. Green was born in Houston and he graduated from the University of Houston with degrees in business administration and law.
- John Culberson
John Abney Culberson (born August 24, 1956), American politician, is a Republican congressman from Texas, representing that state's 7th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2001. The district takes in large portions of western Houston and surrounding Harris County. Culberson has been one of President Bush's staunchest allies regarding the war in Iraq.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eddie Lucio Jr.
Eduardo Andres “Eddie” Lucio, Jr. is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 27th District. Lucio is the father of Eddie Lucio, III who will serve in the Texas House of Representatives in the 80th Legislature.
- Sarah Weddington
Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" case in the United States Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kenny Marchant
Kenneth "Kenny" Marchant, a Republican from Texas, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004. He was born February 23, 1951 in Bonham, Texas, though he calls Coppell, Texas, home. He is married to Donna Marchant and has four children. Prior to being elected to the United States Congress, Marchant graduated from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma with a business degree, was a real estate developer, and owned a homebuilding company.
- 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.
- John Carter
John Rodr Carter (born November 6 1941) is the Republican United States Congressional Representative from (map). Carter was born in Houston, but has spent most of his life in central Texas. Since 1971, he has lived in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin. He has been married to Erika Carter for almost 40 years, and they have four grown children. Carter graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in history in 1964, …
- Arlene Wohlgemuth
Arlene Wohlgemuth, U.S. politician, was the Republican nominee for the 17th Congressional District of Texas in 2004. She lost 51% to 48% to Chet Edwards. 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.
- Suzanna Hupp
Suzanna Gratia Hupp (born 1959) is a former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, who represented traditionally Democratic District 54 (Bell, Burnet, and Lampasas counties) for ten years from 1997-2007. Hupp is recognized worldwide as a leading advocate for the Second Amendment and an individual's right to carry a concealed weapon. She was elected to her first term in 1996 but did not seek a sixth two-year term in 2006.