Kay Bailey Hutchison

Kathryn Ann " Kay " Bailey Hutchison ( born July 22, 1943 in Galveston, Texas) is an American politician. From 1993 to 2013, she represented the state of Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Hutchison was born in 1943 in Galveston. She grew up in La Marque and studied at the University of Texas at Austin. There she graduated in 1967. Between 1972 and 1976 she was a Member of the Texas House of Representatives.

She was elected in a special election for the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate, there to take over the vacant seat has become the Democrats Lloyd Bentsen in 1993. Bentsen had resigned his seat to become U.S. Treasury. Hutchinson in 1994, 2000 and re-elected in 2006. In the Senate, she is a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the Appropriations Committee.

In 2010, she competed in the primary of their party to the governorship in her home state of Texas. She missed the nomination for the November elections, however, significantly against incumbent Rick Perry, who was subsequently confirmed by the voters. In January 2011, then Hutchison announced that she would not compete again in the Senate elections in 2012. She explained that she had chosen this early date for the announcement to give the citizens of Texas enough time so that they can find the right successor for them. As a potential candidate, the Vice Governor of Texas, David Dewhurst, and the Attorney General of the State, Greg Abbott, both of which are compared to Hutchison as were much more conservative. On the Democratic side, Bill White was traded, who lost the gubernatorial election in 2010 against Rick Perry. In the election, then Ted Cruz was able to prevail.

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