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The district was initially created in 1903. For most of the next six decades, it stretched across 42,000 square miles (110,000 km 2), from El Paso in the west to the Permian Basin (Midland and Odessa) in the east. However, after Texas' original 1960 district map was thrown out as a result of Wesberry v.
Nathan Matthew Johnson (born February 12, 1968) is an American politician, lawyer, and composer who represents almost a million Dallas County residents in the growing and rapidly diversifying Texas Senate District 16.
District 16 is a district in the Texas House of Representatives. It was created in the 3rd legislature (1849–1851). The district has been represented by Republican Will Metcalf since November 4, 2014, upon his re-election to the Texas House in a special election after the prior representative, Brandon Creighton , was elected to the Texas Senate.
Texas Senate District 16 special runoff election - 1 June 1996 [13] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican: John Carona: 10,459 57.04 +17.19 Republican: Donna Halstead
Morgan Smith, formerly of Slate, started writing for the Tribune in January 2010. Thornton raised more than US$2 million before the project was made public in July 2009. [15] By the time The Texas Tribune debuted on November 3, 2009, [16] it had raised $3.6 million from more than 1,000 individual donors and at least fifty corporate sponsors. [15]
In 2023, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 17, which allows for courts to remove district attorneys for "official misconduct," which would include refusal to prosecute certain criminal offenses, with the goal of holding "rogue district attorneys accountable." The law came after some progressive Texas district ...
Buzbee grew up in Atlanta, Texas, on a farm with his parents and three siblings. [2] Buzbee earned a B.S. in psychology from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. [3] Buzbee was the Battalion Commander of the NROTC Midshipman Battalion and a member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. [4]
The 2026 United States Senate election in Texas will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Texas. Incumbent four-term Republican Senator John Cornyn , who was re-elected in 2020 is eligible to run for re-election to a fifth term in office.