John Cornyn III is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States Senator for Texas since 2002. He is the son of Atholene Gale Cornyn and John Cornyn II, a colonel in the United States Air Force. Cornyn is a graduate of Trinity University and St. Mary’s University School of Law. He served as a district judge in San Antonio for six years before being elected as a Republican in 1990 to the Texas Supreme Court.
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John Cornyn III is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States Senator for Texas since 2002. He was the Republican Senate Majority Whip for the 114th and 115th Congresses. Cornyn is a graduate of Trinity University and St. Mary’s University School of Law, and received an LL. M. degree from the University of Virginia School of law. He served as a district judge in San Antonio for six years before being elected as a Republican in 1990 to the Texas Supreme Court, on which he served for seven years. In 1998, Cornyn was elected Attorney General of Texas, serving one term until winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2002. In 2004, he co-founded and became the co-chairman of the Senate S. Caucus. In 2014, he was re-elected to a third term in 2014, and to a fourth term in 2020. He won the Republican primary with 59% of the vote against Houston-area congressman Steve Stockman. He raised nearly 14 million dollars for the general election, outspending Democratic nominee David Alameel by nearly 3-1. He is the son of Atholene Gale Cornyn and John Cornyn II, a colonel in the United States Air Force. He attended the American School in Japan after his family moved to Tokyo in 1968, and graduated from it in 1969. In 1988, he attended a two-week seminar at Oxford University jointly hosted by the National Judicial College at the. University of Nevada, Reno and Florida State University Law School.
The seminar, held on the Oxford campus, was not academically affiliated with the university. In 2005, Corny was mentioned as a possible replacement for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and William Rehnquist. He fought government waste and corruption by investigating fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. On September 6, 2002, the Austin Chronicle reported that Cornyn had announced that his office would investigate the 1999 drug bust, where the testimony of one narcotics agent led to the arrests of 46 people, 43 of whom were Black. The same Rasmussen poll showed Cornyn leading the Libertarian candidate David B. Adams 47% to 43%, suggesting that the race might prove unexpectedly competitive, but most polls showed a much wider margin, and Cornyn won the race. Texas has not elected a Democrat in a statewide election since 1994, and according to Rasmussen Reports polling,Cornyn had an approval rating of 50% in October 2008. In 2010, he raised USD 14 million for the 2014 general election and won with 54% of the vote, and defeated Jim Mattox, a former attorney general and U. S. Representative. In 2012, he defeated Democratic nominee Ron Kirk in a campaign that cost each candidate over USD 9 million, and was reelected in a general election by 54% to 54%. He was named the St. Mary’s Distinguished Law School Graduate in 1994 and a Trinity University Distinguished Alumnus in 2001.
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