- Kirk Watson
Kirk Watson (born March 18, 1958) is a Texas Democratic politician and lawyer from Austin. He served as Austin mayor from 1997 to 2001. He ran unsuccessfully for Texas Attorney General in the 2002 election. He was handily defeated by the Republican Greg Abbott. In 2006, Watson was elected to the Texas State Senate from District 14. Watson was educated at Baylor University in Waco, was editor-in-chief of the "Baylor Law Review", …
- Rodney Ellis
Rodney Glenn Ellis (born 7 April 1954) is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate for the 13th District, and co-founder of Apex Securities. He is currently Chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Organization and sits on the Senate Committees on State Affairs, Criminal Justice, and Transportation and Homeland Security. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy, the University of Texas Law School Foundation Board, …
- Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick (born Dannie Scott Goeb, 4 April 1950) is a Texas State Senator, former sportscaster, author, and conservative radio talk show host on KSEV 700 AM in Houston, Texas. Patrick hosts a daily afternoon show on KSEV radio and regularly organizes political events in the Houston area. Patrick's show was once voted the top talk radio show in Texas by the Houston Press Club. Prior to hosting his show on KSEV, Patrick was a television broadcaster in Baltimore, Scranton, …
- Florence Shapiro
Florence Shapiro (born 2 May 1948) is a current Texas state senator representing the 8th Senatorial District. She represents 677,109 Texans in the cities of Addison, Allen, Carrollton, Coppell, Dallas, Farmers Branch, Frisco, Irving, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano, Richardson, and other outlying areas. She is known as a champion for education and children's issues. She is a Republican. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in secondary education.
- Jane Nelson
Jane Gray Nelson (born 5 October 1941) is the second highest ranking Republican in the Texas Senate and serves as Chairman of the Health & Human Services Committee. Senator Nelson is a former public school teacher who represents District 12 which includes parts of Denton and Tarrant Counties. Prior to serving on the Texas state Senate, she served two terms on the State Board of Education, leading the fight to correct more than 2,000 errors in school history textbooks.
- Royce West
Royce West (born 26 September 1952) is a Democratic African American member of the Texas Senate representing the Dallas-based 23rd District.
- Eliot Shapleigh
Eliot Shapleigh (born November 11, 1952) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 29th Senatorial District which comprises the majority of El Paso County, Texas.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jeff Wentworth
Earl Jeffrey “Jeff” Wentworth (born November 20, 1940) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from the 25th District, based about San Antonio to the north. He has been in the Senate since 1993. In 2002, Wentworth had a close primary challenge waged by the then conservative state Representative John Shields of San Antonio, son-in-law of the popular businessman Red McCombs.
- John Whitmire
John Harris Whitmire (born 1949) is the longest-serving of current members of the Texas State Senate representing District 15, which includes much of northern Houston. Whitmire was born 13 August 1949 in Hillsboro, Texas to James M. Whitmire and Marie Harris Whitmire, and graduated from Waltrip High School and the University of Houston. Whitmire served as the Acting Governor of Texas in 1993 as part of the Governor for A Day tradition.
- Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester "Chet" Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing a district based in Waco, Texas. He represented Texas's 11th District from 1991 to 2005, and since 2005 has represented the 17th District. A resident of Waco, his district includes the town of Crawford, the home of President George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, …
- Bob Deuell
Bob Deuell (born 11 March 1950) is a conservative Republican member of the Texas Senate, representing the 10 counties of Senate District 2 in Northeast Texas, since 2003. He was educated at George Mason University and the Medical College of Virginia in order to become a family physician. Deuell is a partner in Primary Care Associates of Greenville, Texas, and is a member of the American Medical Association and Texas Medical Association.
- 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.
- Kyle Janek
Kyle Janek, M.D. (born January 10, 1958), is a Republican member of the Texas Senate having represented District 17 in Harris County since 2003.
- Craig Estes
Craig Linton Estes (born 20 August 1953) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 30th District.
- Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946), American politician, is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district based in the state capital, Austin, since 1995. It is currently numbered as the 25th Congressional district but was numbered as the 10th Congressional district from 1995 to 2005.
- Steve Ogden
Steve Ogden (born 21 September 1950) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 5th District. Ogden was elected to the Texas Senate in January 1997, and chairs the Texas Senate Finance Committee. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration degree at Texas A&M University.
- Kevin Eltife
Kevin Paul Eltife (born 1 March 1959) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate who was sworn in on March 5 2004 to represent the citizens of Texas Senate, District 1.
- Kip Averitt
Barry Kip Averitt (born 31 October 1954) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 22nd District.
- Tommy Williams
Thomas D. “Tommy” Williams is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 4.
- Judith Zaffirini
Judith Zaffirini is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 21st District. As of January 9, 2007, Judith Zaffirini is the second in seniority in the 31-member Texas Senate where she has served for 20 years. Since her initial primary victory in 1986 over state Representative William N. “Billy” Hall of Laredo, Senator Zaffirini has continued to defeat challengers in her Webb County-based district.
- Todd Staples
Douglas Todd Staples (born August 24 1963) is the current Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. Previously he was a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 3 from 2001 to 2007. Staples was unopposed for the Republican nomination for agriculture commissioner. He defeated Democrat Hank Gilbert, and Libertarian Clay Woolamin the fall 2006 election. He won with 54.77 percent of the vote, a margin of just over 547,000 over Gilbert.
- 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
- Teel Bivins
Miles Teel Bivins (born 22 November 1947) served as United States ambassador to Sweden between 2004 and 2006. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 21, 2004 and sworn-in in Washington D.C. on May 26, 2004. Bivins presented his credentials to King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on June 9 2004. Bivins formerly served as a Republican member of the Texas Senate from 1989 to 2004 from Senate District 31.
- Kel Seliger
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.
- Mike Jackson
J. Michael “Mike” Jackson is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 11th District.
- Ralph Hall
Ralph Moody Hall (born May 3, 1923) is a United States Representative from the Fourth Congressional District in Texas (map). First elected in 1980, Hall is the ranking Republican of the Science Committee and a senior member of the the Energy and Commerce Committee. He is the dean of the Texas congressional delegation, as well as the oldest serving member of the House of Representatives.
- Kim Brimer
Kenneth Kimberlin “Kim” Brimer, Jr. is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 10. Brimer was born in Houston to Kenneth Kimberlin Brimer, Sr., and the former Louie Francis Hughes and earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Stephen F. Austin State University.
- Troy Fraser
Troy Fraser (born 10 August 1949) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 24th District.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House.
- Jerry Patterson
Jerry Emmett Patterson (born November 151946) is only the second Republican since Reconstruction to serve as Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas. He has been land commissioner since 1999. He served in the Texas State Senate from 1993-1999.
- Mike Moncrief
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.
- Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols is the Republican senator for the 3rd District in the Texas Senate. Nichols defeated Bob Reeves of Center; David Kleimann of Willis; and Frank Denton of Conroe in the Republican Primary. Despite initial predictions that no candidate could win the primary outright and without a run-off election, Nichols won with over 54% of the vote. Nichols earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Lamar University in 1968, …
- Juan Hinojosa
Juan Jesus “Chuy” Hinojosa is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 20th District(Corpus Christi - McAllen).
- Jon Lindsay
Jon Stephen Lindsay (born 4 December 1935) was a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 7th District from 1997 to 2007.
- 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, …
- 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.