Beth Van Duyne
Elizabeth Ann Van Duyne is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 24th congressional district. She served as Mayor of Irving from 2011 through 2017. She is also a former official in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump administration.
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Elizabeth Ann Van Duyne is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 24th congressional district. She served as Mayor of Irving from 2011 through 2017. She is also a former official in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump administration. She was born in upstate New York and lived in Amsterdam, New York until she was seven years old and later lived in Cooperstown. She also graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in city and regional planning, government, and law.
She met her former husband, Chris Dillard, while they were attending Cornell University. They have two children and divorced in 2012 after being married for 17 years. In 2015, following an article by Breitbart News that made a false allegation that a court in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex followed sharia law, Van Dyune pushed for a vote on a resolution in the Irving City Council that expressed support of a bill in the Texas Legislature seeking to ban sh Sharia law.
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