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District 26 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves a portion of Bexar county in the U.S. state of Texas. [ 1 ] The current senator from District 26 is Jose Menendez .
Texas' 26th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes rural Cooke County to the north and some of Wise County to the West and includes parts of Denton County, including Flower Mound, Lewisville and parts of Corinth, Carrollton, Little Elm and The Colony. [5]
Jose Antonio Menendez (born March 11, 1969) is an American politician who is a member of the Texas Senate for District 26. [1] [2] A member of the Democratic Party, he is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 124. He won a special election on February 17, 2015, for the state Senate, to replace Leticia Van de Putte.
Van de Putte represented Texas Senate District 26, which consists of a large portion of San Antonio and Bexar County, from 1999–2015. She has represented the district ever since she won a special election to the Senate in 1999. In 2003, she was appointed Chair of the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus, a position she held until 2011.
Democrats are seeing signs of growing momentum in the Texas Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Rep. Colin Allred (D), fueling the party’s hopes that this year could be the breakthrough ...
Texas's congressional districts since 2023. A long history exists of various individuals serving in the congressional delegations from the State of Texas to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, with all of this occurring after Texas as a territory was annexed as a State in December 1865.
Democrat Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker, is facing off against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in the Texas Senate race this November. It is surprisingly tight.
After the Nov. 5 election, Republicans won many state and local races, including gaining two seats in the Texas House. In January, 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats will be sworn into the lower ...