Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Attorney General of Texas since January 2015. He previously served as Texas State Senator for the 8th district and the Texas State Representative for the 70th district. Paxton has been under indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges relating to activities prior to taking office; he has pleaded not guilty. In October 2020, several high-level assistants in Paxton’s office accused him of bribery, abuse of office and other crimes.
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Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Attorney General of Texas since January 2015. He previously served as Texas State Senator for the 8th district and the Texas State Representative for the 70th district. Paxton has been under indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges relating to activities prior to taking office; he has pleaded not guilty. In October 2020, several high-level assistants in Paxton’s office accused him of \”bribery, abuse of office and other crimes\”. Paxton was born on Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota where his father was stationed while in the United States Air Force. At the age of twelve, Paxton nearly lost an eye in a game of hide-and-seek; a misdiagnosis led to long-term problems with his vision. As a result, his good eye is green; his damaged one, brown and droopy. He was again seriously injured while he was a student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He majored in psychology and was a member of the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce. He received a psychology degree in 1985 from Baylor University, and a Master of Business Administration at the Hankamer School of Business in 1986. In 1991, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. In 2002, he ran in the Republican primary for the Texas House in District 70.
He captured 39. 45% of the vote and moved into a runoff with Bill Vitz, whom he then defeated with 64%. He went on to face Fred Lusk and Robert Worthington for the newly redistricted open seat. On November 4, 2002,. Paxton won with 28,012 votes to Lusk’s 7,074 votes and Worhington’s 600 votes. In 2004, he won re-election against Democrat Martin Woodward in 2004. In 2006, he defeated Rick Koster and Robert Virasin. Paxton received 30,062 votes to Koster’s 12,265 votes and Virasin’s 1,222 votes. He ran unopposed for re- election in 2010. In 2013, he was elected to his second term as Speaker and was re-elected in 2013, 2015, and 2017. He pulled out of the Speaker’s race before the vote. He said that if elected speaker, he would take “bold action in defense of our conservative values” Paxton led a three-candidate field in the GOP primary for Texas attorney general in March 2014. He defeated Dan Branch of Dallas County, 566,114 votes to 426,595 votes. In the November 4 election he defeated a Democratic attorney from Houston named Sam Houston. He won with 465,395 votes on May 27, 2014, and won the runoff election on May 28, 2014. In the primary was Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman of Austin, who polled the remaining 281,064 votes. Paxton raised 9,45,45 in the primary.
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