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David Dewhurst is only the third Republican since Reconstruction to serve as lieutenant governor of Texas. Dewhurst was born in Houston in 1945. Image File history File linksMetadata David_Dewhurst. ...
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Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area Ranked 2nd - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²) - Width 773 miles (1,244 km) - Length 790 miles (1,270 km) - % water 2. ...
Lieutenant Governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in state government. ...
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// Reconstruction was the period in United States history, 1865–1876, that attempted to resolve the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederacy and its system of slavery were destroyed. ...
A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ...
Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area Ranked 2nd - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²) - Width 773 miles (1,244 km) - Length 790 miles (1,270 km) - % water 2. ...
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Dewhurst is a veteran, a businessman, a rancher, and a community leader in Houston, where he has served on civic and charitable boards. He earned his bachelor's degree and played basketball at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...
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He was previously an officer in the U.S. Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. State Department. In 1981, Dewhurst founded Falcon Seaboard, a Texas-based diversified energy and investments company. He breeds registered Black Angus cattle, is an active team roper, and rides cutting horses in American Quarter Horse Association and National Quarter Horse Association competitions. Seal of the Air Force. ...
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Defeating Richard Raymond for land commissioner
Dewhurst was elected as the statewide land commissioner in 1998. A self-described "George Bush Republican," he defeated Democratic State Representative Richard Raymond (born 1960) of Benavides, Texas, in Duval County (later Laredo). During the campaign it was reported by the Houston Chronicle that Raymond was actually living in Bastrop County near Austin, while representing Duval County in the legislature. He submitted and collected on travel vouchers back to Benavides (a much longer distance from Austin) than to Bastrop County. The amount collected was some $32,000. Dewhurst accused Raymond of being a "career politician." Raymond replied that he did not intend to remain in politics all his life. Benavides is a city located in Duval County, Texas. ...
Duval County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...
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Bastrop County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...
Duval County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...
Bastrop County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...
In 1991, in a letter to the Austin American-Statesman, Raymond endorsed a state income tax as the best way to address Texas' fiscal problems. When he ran for land commissioner, Raymond forfeited his Duval County legislative seat. He won another state House seat in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2006 (April 11 primary runoff victory, now unopposed in the general election) from neighboring Webb County. This was the seat originally held by Congressman Henry Cuellar of Laredo. Webb County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...
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Dewhurst received 2,072,604 votes (57.42 percent) to Raymond's 1,438,378 ballots (39.85 percent). A Libertarian polled the remaining 2.72 percent. At the time, George W. Bush was successfully running for reelection as governor and secured more than two-thirds of the vote over the Democratic nominee, the outgoing Land Commissioner Garry Mauro of Bryan, who had served since 1983. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ...
Garry Mauro is an American Democratic Party politician from Texas, most noted for being the four-term commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 1983 to 1999 and for losing the 1998 Texas gubernatorial race to George W. Bush, who at that time had been governor since January 17...
Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. ...
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Defeating John Sharp for lieutenant governor David Dewhurst was elected lieutenant governor in November 2002, when he defeated former Democratic Comptroller John Sharp of Victoria. He succeeded Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant. "Moderate" Republican Ratliff did not contest the lieutenant governor's position in the primary but was instead reelected to the state senate from his Northeast Texas district. Ratliff served barely a year of that last term to which he was elected in 2002 before he resigned to return to private life. Dewhurst polled 2,341,875 votes (51.77 percent) to Sharp's 2,082,281 (46.03 percent). (Two minor candidates polled the remaining 2.19 percent.) In that campaign, Dewhurst stressed his interest in public education and opposition to school vouchers. A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ...
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Redistricting Texas' U.S. House Seats In 2003, Dewhurst assisted the Republican leadership, including then U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land, Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick of Midland and Governor Perry, in passing a sweeping congressional redistricting bill that increased the number of Republican U.S. House seats in Texas from 15 to 21 in the 2004 elections. Minority Democrats were left with 11 seats. In his capacity as the presiding officer of the Texas Senate, Dewhurst, in the third consecutive special session called by the governor, allowed the suspension of the custom that 2/3 of the body must vote to consider a bill. Thomas Dale Tom DeLay (born April 8, 1947) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas, the former House Majority Leader, and a prominent member of the Republican Party. ...
Sugar Land is a city located in Fort Bend County, Texas. ...
Tom Craddick (Republican) succeeded Pete Laney as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives during the 78th legislative session on January 11, 2003. ...
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Dewhurst's leadership on redistricting brought him into legal conflict with his former land commissioner opponent, Richard Raymond, then representing heavily Democratic and Hispanic Webb County in the state House. Raymond is the only elected official to be a plaintiff in the 2006 U.S. Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of the DeLay-Perry-Craddick-Dewhurst redistricting plan. Dewhurst and Raymond have also sparred over education policy. The Hispanic world Hispanic (Spanish Hispano, from Latin HispÄnus, adjective from HispÄnia, Iberian Peninsula) is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. ...
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Dewhurst to face Democrat Maria Alvarado, 2006 Dewhurst was easily renominated for lieutenant governor in the Republican primary held on March 7, 2006. He defeated Tom Kelly, the same unknown candidate whom he bested for the GOP nomination in 2002. Dewhurst will face Democrat Maria Luisa Alvarado, a veterans issues research analyst and the winner of the April 11 runoff primary, in the November general election, as well as Libertarian Judy Baker.
Dewhurst is widely expected to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010. Although political scientists have long maintained that the lieutenant governorship in Texas is more politically powerful than the governorship, two of the most recent lieutenant governors, Rick Perry and David Dewhurst, as well as the late Preston Smith of Lubbock clearly had their eyes on the state's top constitutional office. Neither of Perry's two immediate predecessors in the office, William Hobby or Bob Bullock, sought the governorship though either presumably could have been a strong contender on several occasions had he been willing to run. Preston Smith is the name of two American politicians and a blues and country singer-songwriter. ...
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