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    attorney, and jurist serving as the 48th governor of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of Texas...
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    History", Houston Oral History Project, Houston Library, archived from the original on March 4, 2016, retrieved July 3, 2012 Texas Attorney General Race-November...
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    Glenwood Cemetery is located in Houston, Texas, United States. Developed in 1871, the first professionally designed cemetery in the city accepted its first...
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    Samuel Houston (/ˈhjuːstən/ , HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution...
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  • African American male lawyers in Texas. Due to his mixed ancestry, Price was also the first Native American male lawyer in Texas. John N. Johnson (1883):...
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    politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Texas Senate representing...
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    Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is an American lawyer who served as the 80th United States Attorney General from 2005 to 2007 and is the highest-ranking...
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  • State of Texas v. Yolanda Saldívar was a criminal trial held at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Downtown Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas. The...
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    University of Houston Law Center is the law school of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 colleges of the...
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    Vinson & Elkins (redirect from V&E)
    & Elkins LLP (or V&E) is an international law firm with approximately 700 lawyers worldwide headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. The firm has offices...
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    Falls, Texas from 1921 to 1923 and from 1926 to 1931. He was district attorney in Wichita Falls from 1923 to 1926. He was Attorney General of Texas from...
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    Rochelle Mercedes Garza (category University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston alumni)
    nominee in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election losing to incumbent Ken Paxton. Garza was raised in Brownsville, Texas. Both of her parents were public...
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    mayor of Houston, Bill White, won the Democratic nomination. Kathie Glass, a lawyer from Houston and previous candidate for Texas Attorney General, won...
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  • 1990 United States redistricting cycle (category Electoral geography of the United States)
    (1991) Chisom v. Roemer (1991) Houston Lawyers' Association v. Attorney General of Texas (1991) Presley v. Etowah County Comm'n (1992) Growe v. Emison (1993)...
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    judiciary. The Texas Supreme Court has the sole authority to license attorneys in Texas. It also appoints the members of the Board of Law Examiners which...
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    courts began to consider requests by the attorney general and other plaintiffs to bail in the states of Texas and North Carolina, and in January 2014 a...
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  • July 1, 1940), is an American attorney who took on a series of high-profile civil rights cases beginning with his defense of a Vietnam War protester. Jones...
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    area of Houston, Texas, United States, that evolved from one of the six historic wards of the same name. It is located in the southeast Houston management...
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    Sherrilyn Ifill (category 20th-century American lawyers)
    including the landmark Houston Lawyers' Association v. Attorney General of Texas. In 1993, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Law School...
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    John Cornyn (category Texas Attorneys General)
    on the Texas Supreme Court from 1991 to 1997 and as the attorney general of Texas from 1999 to 2002. Born in Houston, Cornyn is a graduate of Trinity...
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    Sylvester Turner (category Texas lawyers)
    American attorney and politician who was the 62nd mayor of Houston, Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, Turner was a member of the Texas House of Representatives...
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  • the consumer protection division of the state of Texas sought permission from the office of the Attorney General of Texas to sue Trump University. An investigation...
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    January 20, 2015, as the 48th Governor of Texas. Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas Lisa Fritsch, author and radio show host Larry Kilgore, perennial...
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    reelected with 72.6% of the vote in 2020. On November 22, 2021, Gohmert announced that he would run for Texas Attorney General against incumbent Ken...
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  • Attorneys General Conference." Source: Texas prosecutors cover districts that include multiple counties or single counties. Some district attorneys are...
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    Tom C. Clark (category United States Assistant Attorneys General for the Criminal Division)
    an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United...
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    Ted Cruz (category Solicitors General of Texas)
    50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. In 2010 Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century. After...
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    Chris Bell (politician) (category Texas lawyers)
    American politician, attorney, and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five...
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    the Texas Supreme Court in overseeing all attorneys licensed to practice law in Texas. With more than 100,000 active members, the State Bar of Texas is...
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  • President of the United States. Robert Lee Bobbitt – Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927–1929), Attorney General of Texas (1929–1930)...
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