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Paul David Bettencourt (born October 20, 1958) is an American politician and businessman based out of Houston, Texas, who serves as a Republican member of the Texas State Senate from District 7. On January 13, 2015, he succeeded state Senator Dan Patrick of Houston, who successfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Texas .
Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29, 1845, and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 2. The state's current senators are Republicans John Cornyn (serving since 2002) and Ted Cruz (serving since 2013). A total of 27 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Liberal Republican have served or are serving as U.S. senators from Texas.
District 7 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that serves portions of Harris and Montgomery counties in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The current senator from District 7 is Paul Bettencourt .
In the party affiliation column, if a senator switched parties and served non-consecutive terms, their affiliation for each term is listed on the corresponding line. If one of these senators also served multiple non-consecutive terms with the same party, a quotation mark indicates that their affiliation did not change between that term and ...
Senator Party State Term Notes Start End Length of service Harris Wofford † Democratic: Pennsylvania: May 8, 1991: January 3, 1995: 3 years, 240 days Announced his marriage to a man in 2016. [3] [4] Tammy Baldwin: Democratic: Wisconsin: January 3, 2013: Incumbent 12 years, 17 days As an openly lesbian woman, Baldwin is the first openly LGBTQ ...
Paul Lindsey Sadler (born April 29, 1955) is an American attorney from Henderson, Texas, now residing in Bandera, Texas who served from 1991 to 2003 in the Texas House of Representatives. He was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 2012 .
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45 Texas. 46 Utah. 47 Vermont. 48 Virginia. 49 Washington. 50 West Virginia. 51 Wisconsin. 52 Wyoming. 53 See also. ... with the average state senate having 39 ...