- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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".
- 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).
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
- 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, …
- Al Green
Alexander N. "Al" Green, commonly known as Al Green, was born on September 1, 1947, and is the U.S. Representative from the Ninth Congressional District in Texas (map). Green won the Democratic primary for District 9 in Houston on March 9, 2004, a district that is largely Democratic with 37% of its population African American and 31% Hispanic - two ethnic groups that traditionally support the Democrats - and later was victorious over Republican Arlette Molina.
- Nick Lampson
Nicholas Valentino Lampson, usually known as Nick Lampson (born February 14, 1945) is an American politician from the state of Texas. Lampson was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 9th District from 1997 to 2005. After redistricting, he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Texas's 2nd District in 2004. After a one-term hiatus from Congress, he returned to Congress from the 22nd District, …
- Sheila Jackson-Lee
Sheila Jackson-Lee (born January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. She represents Texas' 18th Congressional District (map), which was once the domain of her role model, former congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
- Davy Crockett
Colonel David Crockett (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo.
- 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.
- 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%).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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
- 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, …
- Ted Poe
Ted Poe (born September 10, 1948) is a Republican politician and jurist currently representing Texas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. (map).
- 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.
- 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.
- Martin Frost
Jonas Martin Frost III (born January 1, 1942) is an American politician, who was the Democratic representative to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Texas 24th Congressional District from 1979 to 2005. He was married to U.S. Army Major General (Retired) Kathryn Frost until her death in 2006. Born in Glendale, California, Frost grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1964 with bachelor's degrees in journalism and history, …
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Michael McCaul
Michael T. McCaul (b. January 14 1962, Dallas, Texas) is an American lawyer and politician who currently is the Republican U.S. Representative for Texas District 10 (map). McCaul earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Antonio's Trinity University in 1984 and his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University in 1987. He also attended Harvard University. McCaul worked as an attorney and a federal prosecutor before running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Solomon P. Ortiz
Solomon Porfirio Ortiz (born June 3, 1937 in Robstown, Texas) is an American politician from the State of Texas who currently serves in the United States House of Representatives from the 27th Texas Congressional district (map) based in Corpus Christi.
- Kay Granger
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, …
- 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.
- Kevin Brady
Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. Brady was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, one of five children of William and Nancy Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting in Rapid City, S.D.when Brady was 12 years old. Brady graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. A chamber of commerce executive who also served on the Rapid City Common Council, …
- Jim Turner
James "Jim" Turner (born February 6, 1946), American politician, was the Democratic representative for the Texas 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 until 2005. Turner was born in Fort Lewis, Washington, but grew up in Crockett, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree in business, and simultaneously earned a Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor, all at the University of Texas at Austin.
- 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.
- Henry B. Gonzalez
Henry Barbosa Gonzalez was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999. Gonzalez was born in San Antonio, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and San Antonio College, earning his undergraduate degree. Later, he received a Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University. Upon graduation, he became a probation officer, and was quickly promoted to the chief office of Bexar County, Texas.
- 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.
- Louie Gohmert
Louis Buller "Louie" Gohmert, Jr. (born August 18, 1953, in Pittsburg, Texas), is an American politician and current Republican U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st district(map). Gohmert received his B.A. from Texas A&M University in 1975. At A&M, he was a Brigade Commander of the Corps of Cadets. He later received his Juris Doctor from Baylor University in 1977. Gohmert served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army, at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1978 to 1982.
- Randy Neugebauer
Randy Neugebauer (born December 24, 1949) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 19th Congressional district (map). The district includes a large swath of West Texas, including Lubbock and Abilene. He was sworn in on June 5, 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. Neugebauer serves on the House Committee on Agriculture, and Committee on Financial Services. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Dana.