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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.
Independent Democrat Free Soil Free Soil Republican: 1806–1873 Wilton E. Hall: 1944–1945: 2: South Carolina: Democratic: 1901–1980 Morgan C. Hamilton: 1870–1873 1873–1875 1875–1877: 2: Texas: Republican Liberal Republican Republican: 1809–1893 William Thomas Hamilton: 1869–1875: 1: Maryland: Democratic: 1820–1888 Hannibal ...
Robert Charles Krueger (September 19, 1935 – April 30, 2022) was an American diplomat, politician, and U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Texas, a U.S. Ambassador, and a member of the Democratic Party. As of 2025, he is the last Democrat to serve as a United States Senator from Texas.
He previously worked as staff attorney for Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., a statewide legal services program. For 17 years prior to his election to the Texas State Senate, Rodríguez served as the El Paso County Attorney. Rodríguez's legal work has concentrated on education and community health, as well as funding for jobs and economic development.
The overarching questions for Texas Democrats heading into the final weeks before the March 5 primary is whether the nine-candidate race for the U.S. senatorial nomination can be settled without a ...
In 2016, Flores ran for the Texas Senate District 19, losing to Democratic incumbent Carlos Uresti with about 40% of the vote. [7] District 19 is geographically the largest district in the Texas Senate, with about 400 miles of the Texas–Mexico border , and it contains all or part of 17 counties spread over more than 35,000 square miles in the ...
Polling last month by the University of Texas in Austin found that 45% of Republicans considered Allred to be extremely liberal, compared with 80% who said that about Harris. Allred hasn't exactly ...
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Texas. The list of names should be complete as of ...