- Rick Perry
James Richard Perry (b. March 4, 1950) is a Republican politician and the Governor of Texas. He assumed office in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States. Gov. Perry was elected to full terms in 2002 and 2006. In the 2006 November general election Perry defeated a Democrat, former Congressman Chris Bell of Houston; a Libertarian, sales consultant James Werner; and two independent candidates, …
- 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", …
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kathyrn Ann Bailey Hutchison, usually known as Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal".
- Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr.
- 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, …
- Joe Barton
Joseph Linus "Joe" Barton (born September 15, 1949) is a Republican politician, representing (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985
- Phil Gramm
William Philip "Phil" Gramm (born July 8, 1942, in Fort Benning, Georgia) served as a Democratic Congressman (1978–1983), a Republican Congressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator from Texas (1985–2002).
- 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.
- Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes (born April 17, 1938) is an American politician and lobbyist, who was once the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas. He was a vice-chair and top fund-raiser of the John Kerry campaign, being one of only eight persons who raised over $500,000 for Kerry
- Chris Bell
Robert Christopher "Chris" Bell (born November 23, 1959) is a Democratic Party politician in the United States. He last served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Texas District 25 in Houston from 2003 to 2005. He was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Chris Bell lost the November 2006 election to incumbent Rick Perry by just over 407,155 votes (Perry 39% versus Bell 30%).
- 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, …
- Carole Keeton Strayhorn
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.
- David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst (born 1945) is the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
- Tom Craddick
Thomas Russell “Tom” Craddick is the first Republican to serve as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives since Reconstruction.
- Ronnie Earle
Ronald Dale "Ronnie" Earle (born February 23, 1942) is the District Attorney for Travis County, Texas and member of the Democratic Party. He became nationally known for filing charges against House majority leader Tom DeLay in September 2005 for conspiring to violate Texas' election law and/or to launder money. Earle has also prosecuted other Texas politicians, including Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, State Representative, Mike Martin, …
- 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, …
- Kinky Friedman
Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born October 31, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for "Texas Monthly". He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the five-party race.
- Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson (born June 1, 1933) was a United States naval officer and Democratic United States Congressman from District Two in Texas. He has become known for leading Congress into supporting the largest ever CIA covert operation to supply the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War. He was even made a General by the Pakistani Military, though he was asked to not wear his uniform inside Pakistan.
- Clayton Williams
Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr. (b. 1931), a businessman from Midland, Texas, is best known for running for the governorship of the state of Texas against Democratic State Treasurer Ann Richards in 1990 on the Republican ticket.
- John Connally
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27 1917 - June 15 1993) was a powerful American politician from the state of Texas. He was initially a member of the Democratic Party, but in 1973, at the height of the Watergate affair, he switched allegiance to the Republican Party. He was also noteworthy as a passenger in the car in which John F. Kennedy was shot to death. Although badly wounded himself, Connally made a full recovery from his injuries.
- Jim Hightower
James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is a populist activist and a former Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
- 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, …
- Pete Sessions
A conservative community leader, United States Congressman Pete Sessions has combined hard work, innovative thinking, free-market solutions and common sense based principles and values to build a successful family, business and congressional career. First elected in 1996, Congressman Sessions was re-elected in 1998, and 2000 by the people of Dallas and the Fifth Congressional District to represent them in the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC.
- Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes (born 10 November 1944 in Canutillo, Texas) represents the Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Reyes served in the United States Army and he later worked for the U.S. Border Patrol. In 1993, serving as the Chief Patrol Agent of the El Paso Border Patrol Sector, Reyes led the Border Patrol to position agents on the border to intercept illegal immigrants. He is a Vietnam War veteran.
- John Hancock
John Hancock (October 24, 1824-July 19, 1893) was U.S. judge and politician. As a member of the Texas Legislature he opposed the secession of Texas during the American Civil War. After the war he represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.
- Jeb Hensarling
Jeb Hensarling (born May 29, 1957), American politician, has been the Republican congressman representing the Texas 5th congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives since 2003. Hensarling was born in Stephenville, Texas, and grew up on the family farm in College Station. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 1982 he earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
- 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., …
- Henry Bonilla
Henry D. Bonilla (born January 2, 1954) is a former Congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Ciro Davis Rodriguez, a former Democratic member of Congress, in a special election runoff held on December 12, 2006. His term expired January 3, 2007 when the 110th Congress officially began.
- Tom Loeffler
Thomas Gilbert (Tom) Loeffler (born August 1, 1946) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas. He is currently an advisor to the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona. Loeffler was born in Fredericksburg in the heart of the Texas Hill Country and attended school in Mason, the seat of Mason County. He earned B.B.A. and a Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
- 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.
- 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.
- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Barbara Ann Radnofsky (born July 8, 1956) was the Democratic nominee for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, in 2006. She is the first woman to have won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Nathan Hecht
Nathan L. Hecht (born August 15, 1949) is a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Hecht, a Republican, was elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988 and reelected in 1994, 2000, and 2006. With over 18 years of service, Hecht is currently the most senior Justice of the Court. He was re-elected to a fourth six-year term on November 7, 2006. His term ends on December 31, 2012.