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The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. The Council has sixteen members: eleven from council districts and five elected at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, with the most recent election being held in 2023 and the next being held in 2027.
Adrian Garcia (born December 26, 1960) is an American politician and the current County Commissioner for Precinct 2 in Harris County, Texas.Garcia spent 23 years with the Houston Police Department, before becoming a city councilman.
Dwight Anthony Boykins is a Democratic politician and former member of the Houston City Council in Texas, representing District D where he was born and raised. He was elected to the council in 2013 in the general election on November 5, 2013. [1] He was also a candidate for Mayor of Houston in the 2019 election.
Knox is a Republican. [3] He was first elected to represent At-large Position 1 of the Houston City Council on November 15, 2014, and assumed office on January 2, 2016. [4]In 2016, Knox fired a staffer who attempted to block a Muslim from being appointed to Harris Republican Party precinct chair.
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The current mayor of Houston is John Whitmire. The city council lineup was based on a U.S. Justice Department mandate which took effect in 1979. Under the current city charter, when the population in the Houston city limits passed 2.2 million residents, the nine-member city council districts expanded to include two more city council districts. [2]
Wong lived in the Houston Heights, initially within her parents' grocery business and later. [5] She attended Hogg Junior High School, [6] and then Reagan High School (now Heights High School) in Houston. [1] In 1993, she became the Houston City Council's first elected Asian American Councilwoman, and was elected to three successive terms. She ...
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.