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John Harris Whitmire (born August 13, 1949) [2] is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd mayor of Houston, the most populous city in Texas, since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party , Whitmire was previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 until 1983, and the Texas State Senate from 1983 to 2023.
Houston elected Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire as its next mayor on Saturday night, elevating a Texas lawmaker who has represented the city for 50 years by giving him a victory over U.S. Rep ...
The choice between Whitmire and Jackson Lee, who is 73, frustrated some Democratic voters, particularly younger ones, at a time when the party is searching for new political stars in Texas who ...
Texas state Sen. John Whitmire will be the next mayor of Houston, CNN projects, after winning a runoff Saturday over US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to lead the country’s fourth-largest city.
Molly Cook (born June 6, 1991) [1] is an American registered nurse and politician who is a member of the Texas Senate for the 15th district.A Democrat, she was elected in a May special election to fill the vacancy from John Whitmire resigning to become Mayor of Houston.
District 15 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves a portion of Harris county in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The current senator from District 15 is Molly Cook. Cook was elected in a special election to succeed John Whitmire, who resigned on December 31, 2023, to take office as the mayor of Houston. [2] [3]
Whitmire will replace term-limited Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Jackson Lee falls short in effort to become first Black woman leader […] The post Democrat John Whitmire elected Houston mayor ...
Two longtime fixtures of Houston politics, state senator John Whitmire and U.S. representative Sheila Jackson Lee, advanced to the runoff. Both Democrats, though Whitmire had drawn support from some Republicans while Turner endorsed Jackson Lee as his successor. Polls of the runoff consistently showed wide leads for Whitmire.