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href="/wiki/Party_chair" title="Party chair">Chairman</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Abraham_George_(politician)" title="Abraham George (politician)">Abraham George</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Texas" title="Governor of Texas">Governor</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Greg Abbott</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Texas" title="Lieutenant Governor of Texas">Lieutenant Governor</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Patrick_(politician)" title="Dan Patrick (politician)">Dan Patrick</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Texas_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives">House Speaker</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Dade_Phelan" title="Dade Phelan">Dade Phelan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1867<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1867</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="avoidwrap" style="display:inline-block;">PO Box 2206</span> <span class="avoidwrap" style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a> 78768</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">Conservatism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">National affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Colors</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#E81B23; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Red" title="Red">Red</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Texas_House_of_Representatives" title="Texas House of Representatives">State House</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">86 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 57%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Texas_Senate" title="Texas Senate">State Senate</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">19 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 61%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Texas#Executive" title="Government of Texas">Statewide Executive Offices</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 9</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Texas_Education_Agency#State_Board_of_Education" title="Texas Education Agency">Board of Education</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">10 / 15</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 67%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">25 / 38</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 66%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 2</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Texas" title="Supreme Court of Texas">State Supreme Court</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 9</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 0.8em;">Election symbol</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Republican_Party_Disc_(alternate).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Republican_Party_Disc_%28alternate%29.svg/100px-Republican_Party_Disc_%28alternate%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Republican_Party_Disc_%28alternate%29.svg/150px-Republican_Party_Disc_%28alternate%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Republican_Party_Disc_%28alternate%29.svg/200px-Republican_Party_Disc_%28alternate%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 0.8em;">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.texasgop.org">www.texasgop.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="padding-top:0;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-top:0.3em; border-top:2px solid #E81B23;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Texas" title="Politics of Texas">Politics of Texas</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Texas" title="Elections in Texas">Elections</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Republican Party of Texas</b> (<b>RPT</b>) is the affiliate of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> in the state of <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. It is currently chaired by <a href="/wiki/Abraham_George_(politician)" title="Abraham George (politician)">Abraham George</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Matt_Rinaldi" title="Matt Rinaldi">Matt Rinaldi</a> who finished his term in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-Texan05242024_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Texan05242024-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party is headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin</a>, and is legally considered to be a <a href="/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a>. It is currently the state's ruling party, controlling the majority of Texas's <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House</a> seats, both <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> seats, both houses of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Legislature" title="Texas Legislature">state legislature</a>, and all statewide elected offices. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A majority of the 600 delegates to the 1867 convention were black, but white delegates controlled the important positions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAbbott1986131-132_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbbott1986131-132-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Republican Party developed dramatically in Texas during the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a>, after constitutional amendments freeing the slaves and giving suffrage to black males. Blacks joined the party that had ensured the end of slavery. African American leaders, frequently men of <a href="/wiki/Mixed_race" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed race">mixed race</a> who had been free and educated before the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, provided leadership in extending education and work opportunities to blacks after the war. They supported establishment of a public school system for the first time. Men such as <a href="/wiki/William_Madison_McDonald" title="William Madison McDonald">William Madison McDonald</a> in Fort Worth, <a href="/wiki/Norris_Wright_Cuney" title="Norris Wright Cuney">Norris Wright Cuney</a> in Galveston, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_Clay_Ferguson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Clay Ferguson (page does not exist)">Henry Clay Ferguson</a> worked for the black community and the state. </p><p>In 1870, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_J._Davis" title="Edmund J. Davis">Edmund J. Davis</a> was elected Governor but was soundly defeated in 1874. In the year 1876, Republicans had made gradual gains in Texas, earning nearly one-third of the statewide vote and electing a small number of candidates to the State Legislature (including several African Americans). </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Era_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction Era of the United States">Reconstruction era</a>, the Republican Party of Texas gradually lost power, and after the turn of the century, the "Lily Whites" pushed blacks out of power. The Democrats passed <a href="/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era">disfranchising</a> laws near the turn of the century requiring <a href="/wiki/Poll_tax_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poll tax (United States)">poll taxes</a> be paid prior to voter registration; together with the party establishing white primaries, black voting dropped dramatically, from more than 100,000 statewide in the 1890s, to 5,000 in 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-MOTTU_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MOTTU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mexican Americans and poor whites were also adversely affected by such measures. For more than 100 years, the Republicans were a minority party in the state. As a result, the biggest base of electoral support for the Republican Party in Texas during this time was the <a href="/wiki/German_Texan" class="mw-redirect" title="German Texan">German Texan</a> community in the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Hill_Country" title="Texas Hill Country">Texas Hill Country</a>, with the majority-German <a href="/wiki/Gillespie_County,_Texas" title="Gillespie County, Texas">Gillespie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guadalupe_County,_Texas" title="Guadalupe County, Texas">Guadalupe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kendall_County,_Texas" title="Kendall County, Texas">Kendall</a> counties constituting the most Republican counties in the state of Texas throughout the late 19th and into the 20th century. </p><p>Between the departing of <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Hawley" title="Robert B. Hawley">Robert B. Hawley</a> from his second <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House</a> term in 1901 and the seating of <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Alger" title="Bruce Alger">Bruce Alger</a> in 1954, the sole Republican to represent Texas in Congress was <a href="/wiki/Harry_M._Wurzbach" title="Harry M. Wurzbach">Harry M. Wurzbach</a>, a politician from the German Texan community in the Hill Country who served in the U.S. House for most of the 1920s and left office in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first Republican statewide primary was held in 1926, but drew only 15,239 voters. By contrast, the Democratic primary in the same year drew 821,234 voters, as disfranchisement was well established, and Texas was essentially a one-party, white-only voting state. Only two more Republican primaries were run in the next thirty-four years.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960–present"><span id="1960.E2.80.93present"></span>1960–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1960–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1961, James A. Leonard became the first <a href="/wiki/Executive_director" title="Executive director">executive director</a> of the organization. He is credited as the "architect" of <a href="/wiki/John_Tower" title="John Tower">John Tower</a>'s successful campaign to fill <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a>'s vacant U.S. Senate seat, a victory that was a breakthrough in the party's attempts to gain a foothold in Texas politics.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966, two Republicans were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, including future President <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a>, for the first time since Reconstruction. That same year, three Republicans were elected to the <a href="/wiki/Texas_House_of_Representatives" title="Texas House of Representatives">Texas House of Representatives</a>, and the first Republican was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Senate" title="Texas Senate">Texas Senate</a> in 39 years. By 1972, Texas Republicans had increased their gains to 17 members of the Texas House and 3 members of the Texas Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The true turning point for Texas Republicans occurred in the May 1976 primary, when <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a> by a two-to-one margin in the state's presidential primary. According to former Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/James_A._Baker_III" class="mw-redirect" title="James A. Baker III">James A. Baker III</a>, due to Reagan's victory in the Texas primary, "the whole shape and nature of the state changed."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>104 years after the most recent previous Republican governor, <a href="/wiki/William_Clements" class="mw-redirect" title="William Clements">Bill Clements</a> eked out a narrow victory in November 1978. In 1984, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and <a href="/wiki/Phil_Gramm" title="Phil Gramm">Phil Gramm</a> led a GOP ticket that relied upon the party to provide a centralized network of communications. Throughout the rest of the decade, the total Republican vote continued to increase, and the party made large gains in both the state legislature and in local races.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 1994, every statewide elected office has been held by a Republican. Both houses of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Legislature" title="Texas Legislature">Texas Legislature</a> feature Republican majorities. The last time Texas was carried by a Democratic presidential candidate was in <a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election" title="1976 United States presidential election">1976</a>, when the state voted for <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> (41st) and his son <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> (43rd) are the only Republican Presidents from Texas. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)"><img alt="President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/114px-George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="114" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/171px-George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/228px-George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="2100" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> (1989–1993)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George-W-Bush.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="President George W. Bush (2001–2009)"><img alt="President George W. Bush (2001–2009)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/George-W-Bush.jpeg/113px-George-W-Bush.jpeg" decoding="async" width="113" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/George-W-Bush.jpeg/170px-George-W-Bush.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/George-W-Bush.jpeg/227px-George-W-Bush.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2267" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> (2001–2009)</div> </li> </ul> <p>In 2020, the party adopted the slogan "We are the storm", a phrase also used by believers in the <a href="/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon">QAnon</a> conspiracy theory, which party chair <a href="/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)" title="Allen West (politician)">Allen West</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> identified as a quotation from an unspecified poem.<sup id="cite_ref-guardianjan31_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianjan31-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytaug22_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytaug22-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-chroniclejan25_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chroniclejan25-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party opposes LGBT rights, including the right to same-sex marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC_News_2022_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC_News_2022-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Neugeboren_2022_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neugeboren_2022-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party's platform calls gay people "abnormal" and opposes "all efforts to validate transgender identity."<sup id="cite_ref-NBC_News_2022_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC_News_2022-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022, all Texas Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives except <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Gonzalez_(politician)" title="Anthony Gonzalez (politician)">Anthony Gonzalez</a> voted against codifying the right to same-sex marriage into federal law.<sup id="cite_ref-Neugeboren_2022_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neugeboren_2022-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party is responsible for a near-total prohibition on <a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Texas" title="Abortion in Texas">abortion in Texas</a>, and has rejected attempts to codify exceptions for the pregnant individual's life or health.<sup id="cite_ref-:27_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:27-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:28_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:28-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2024 State Convention adopted a rule to <a href="/wiki/Closed_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Closed primary">close</a> the Republican primary in Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As adopted, the rule would prevent a candidate who has been censured by the state party from running in the primary.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> State law currently mandates open primaries, where voters select which primary to vote in when they go to vote<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> rather than affiliating with a party prior to the primary. </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organization">Organization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party is organized, like many U.S. political parties, with a state <a href="/wiki/Political_convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Political convention">convention</a> as the ultimate authority of the party.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The biennial state convention is the final authority on party rules, the <a href="/wiki/Party_platform" title="Party platform">party platform</a>, and elects state-wide party officers.<sup id="cite_ref-Texan05242024_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Texan05242024-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Any convention electing delegates to a subsequent convention may also elect the same number of alternates.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No Republican convention in Texas is a nominating convention; all nominations for state and local offices are determined in primaries.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conventions">Conventions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Conventions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Every even numbered year, Texas Republicans hold a number of conventions that begin with a precinct convention in which every Republican primary voter is eligible to participate in and culminates in the state convention that is the ultimate decision-making body of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Precinct_convention">Precinct convention</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Precinct convention"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Any voter who voted the party's primary or signs an oath of affiliation may participate at the precinct convention.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This convention is organized by <a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">electoral precinct</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This convention may be the night of the primary election.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Participants will elect a chair for the convention, vote on resolutions submitted by participants which generally are suggestions to amend the party rules or platform, and elect delegates to the county or senatorial district convention encompassing the precinct. Delegates are allocated by the number of votes the Republican candidate for Governor received in the most recent gubernatorial election.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not uncommon for there to be more delegate positions to the county or senatorial district convention than there are participants at the precinct convention.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="County_and_senatorial_district_conventions">County and senatorial district conventions</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: County and senatorial district conventions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In counties wholly within a single state senate district, there is a single county-wide convention. There are "county conventions."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, <a href="/wiki/Lubbock_County,_Texas" title="Lubbock County, Texas">Lubbock County</a> had a single county convention in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In counties split between senate districts, there is a separate convention for the portion of the county in each senate district.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These are "senatorial district conventions."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, in <a href="/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas" title="Harris County, Texas">Harris County</a> there were nine separate conventions in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Participants elect officers of the convention, consider resolutions amending the state party platform and rules, an elect delegates to the state convention using a similar formula to the formula to allocate delegates to the county/senatorial district convention.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="State_convention">State convention</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: State convention"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The state convention adopts the party platform and party rules, elects state-wide party leadership—like the state chair—elects members of the State Republican Executive Committee by state senate district, adopts legislative priorities, and in Presidential election years elects delegates to the <a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Convention" title="Republican National Convention">Republican National Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Texan05242024_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Texan05242024-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2022_convention_and_reaction">2022 convention and reaction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2022 convention and reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some 5,100 delegates and alternates attended the party's June 2022 convention in Houston, its first in three years. The <a href="/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans" title="Log Cabin Republicans">Log Cabin Republicans</a>, an organization that advocates for <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the United States">LGBT rights</a>, was banned from attending the convention. Delegates approved resolutions including the false assertion that President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> "was not legitimately <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">elected</a>."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The convention included three screenings of <i><a href="/wiki/2000_Mules" title="2000 Mules">2000 Mules</a></i>, a film by <a href="/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D'Souza">Dinesh D'Souza</a> that falsely alleged an organized criminal "ballot harvesting" scheme by Democratic-aligned operatives to rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The party convention adopted a <a href="/wiki/Party_platform" title="Party platform">platform</a> change declaring <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a> "an abnormal lifestyle choice" and further declared opposition to "all efforts to validate <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> identity".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Delegates also approved a resolution calling for the full repeal of the <a href="/wiki/1965_Voting_Rights_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="1965 Voting Rights Act">1965 Voting Rights Act</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The adopted platform called for a ban on "teaching, exposure, and/or discussion of sexual matters (mechanics, feelings, orientation or 'gender identity' issues)" in schools, including the prohibition of teaching <a href="/wiki/Sex_education" title="Sex education">sex education</a>, while calling on Texas schools to teach about the "dignity of the preborn human".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The adopted platform also stated: "Texas retains the right to <a href="/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States" title="Secession in the United States">secede</a> from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The party rebuked longtime Texas senator <a href="/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">John Cornyn</a> for participating in bipartisan negotiations regarding guns, after a recent series of <a href="/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States" title="Mass shootings in the United States">mass shootings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The platform also called for the creation of a state-level <a href="/wiki/Electoral_college" title="Electoral college">electoral college</a> system inspired by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">United States Electoral College</a>, in which voters from each senate district would vote for electors who would then elect candidates to statewide offices.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Former president <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> praised the platform, saying that "they know that a Country cannot survive without Free and Fair Elections."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resolutions were described by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> as embracing far-right rhetoric<sup id="cite_ref-Helderman_2022_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Helderman_2022-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as a far-right platform by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Reason_(magazine)" title="Reason (magazine)">Reason</a></i> called the "LGBT component" of the platform "a weird throwback" that is "reminiscent of how conservatives used to talk about gay marriage back in the 1990s."<sup id="cite_ref-Shackford_2022_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shackford_2022-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The decision to exclude the Log Cabin Republicans from the convention was criticized by <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr." title="Donald Trump Jr.">Donald Trump Jr.</a>, who said in a statement to <i><a href="/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News">Breitbart News</a></i> that it amounted to “canceling a group of gay conservatives who are standing in the breach with us”.<sup id="cite_ref-Helderman_2022_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Helderman_2022-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Conservative" title="The American Conservative">The American Conservative</a></i> described the platform as showing a turn "toward a conservation of the spirit of <a href="/wiki/Christendom" title="Christendom">Christendom</a>, even if it means departing from the Union." that "gives the RNC much to ponder."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Houston_Chronicle" title="Houston Chronicle">Houston Chronicle</a></i>, "Measures adopted to the party's platform at the convention are not set laws, rather they act as a 'mission statement' of sorts for the party over the next two years",<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and according to the <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">National Public Radio</a> "It remains an open question as to how closely the priorities outlined in the 2022 platform reflect the views of regular Republicans in Texas".<sup id="cite_ref-NPR-1106229988_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-1106229988-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Party platforms in Texas are non-binding on elected officials, a frequent source of frustration for the most hardcore partisan activists.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Texas_Tribune_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Texas_Tribune-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_elected_officials">Current elected officials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Current elected officials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Matt_Rinaldi.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Matt_Rinaldi.png/220px-Matt_Rinaldi.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Matt_Rinaldi.png/330px-Matt_Rinaldi.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Matt_Rinaldi.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="482" /></a><figcaption>Former Party Chairman Matt Rinaldi</figcaption></figure> <p>Texas Republicans currently control all elected statewide offices, a majority in the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Senate" title="Texas Senate">Texas Senate</a>, and a majority in the <a href="/wiki/Texas_House_of_Representatives" title="Texas House of Representatives">Texas House of Representatives</a>. Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and 25 of the state's 38 U.S. House seats. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Members_of_Congress">Members of Congress</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Members of Congress"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="U.S._Senate">U.S. Senate</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Republicans have controlled both of Texas's seats in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> since <a href="/wiki/1993_United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Texas" title="1993 United States Senate special election in Texas">1993</a>: </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Senior U.S. Senator John Cornyn"><img alt="Senior U.S. Senator John Cornyn" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg/150px-John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg/225px-John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg/300px-John_Cornyn_official_senate_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2549" data-file-height="3393" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Senior U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">John Cornyn</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Junior U.S. Senator Ted Cruz"><img alt="Junior U.S. Senator Ted Cruz" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/225px-Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Ted_Cruz_official_116th_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1140" data-file-height="1520" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Junior U.S. Senator <span data-sort-value="Cruz, Ted"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Ted Cruz</a></span></span></span></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="U.S._House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Out of the 38 seats Texas is apportioned in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>, 25 are currently held by Republicans, making it the largest Republican delegation in the U.S. House: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Texas's 1st congressional district">TX-01</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Moran" title="Nathaniel Moran">Nathaniel Moran</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Texas's 2nd congressional district">TX-02</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Dan_Crenshaw" title="Dan Crenshaw">Dan Crenshaw</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Texas's 3rd congressional district">TX-03</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Keith_Self" title="Keith Self">Keith Self</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 4th congressional district">TX-04</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Pat_Fallon" title="Pat Fallon">Pat Fallon</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 5th congressional district">TX-05</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Lance_Gooden" title="Lance Gooden">Lance Gooden</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 6th congressional district">TX-06</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Jake_Ellzey" title="Jake Ellzey">Jake Ellzey</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 8th congressional district">TX-08</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Luttrell" title="Morgan Luttrell">Morgan Luttrell</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 10th congressional district">TX-10</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Michael_McCaul" title="Michael McCaul">Michael McCaul</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 11th congressional district">TX-11</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/August_Pfluger" title="August Pfluger">August Pfluger</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_12th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 12th congressional district">TX-12</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Kay_Granger" title="Kay Granger">Kay Granger</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_13th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 13th congressional district">TX-13</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Ronny_Jackson" title="Ronny Jackson">Ronny Jackson</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_14th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 14th congressional district">TX-14</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Randy_Weber" title="Randy Weber">Randy Weber</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_15th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 15th congressional district">TX-15</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Monica_De_La_Cruz" title="Monica De La Cruz">Monica De La Cruz</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_17th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 17th congressional district">TX-17</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Pete_Sessions" title="Pete Sessions">Pete Sessions</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_19th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 19th congressional district">TX-19</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Jodey_Arrington" title="Jodey Arrington">Jodey Arrington</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_21st_congressional_district" title="Texas's 21st congressional district">TX-21</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Chip_Roy" title="Chip Roy">Chip Roy</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_22nd_congressional_district" title="Texas's 22nd congressional district">TX-22</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Troy_Nehls" title="Troy Nehls">Troy Nehls</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_23rd_congressional_district" title="Texas's 23rd congressional district">TX-23</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Tony_Gonzales" title="Tony Gonzales">Tony Gonzales</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_24th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 24th congressional district">TX-24</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Beth_Van_Duyne" title="Beth Van Duyne">Beth Van Duyne</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_25th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 25th congressional district">TX-25</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Roger_Williams_(Texas_politician)" title="Roger Williams (Texas politician)">Roger Williams</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_26th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 26th congressional district">TX-26</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Michael_C._Burgess" title="Michael C. Burgess">Michael C. Burgess</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_27th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 27th congressional district">TX-27</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cloud" title="Michael Cloud">Michael Cloud</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_31st_congressional_district" title="Texas's 31st congressional district">TX-31</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/John_Carter_(Texas_politician)" title="John Carter (Texas politician)">John Carter</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_36th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 36th congressional district">TX-36</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Brian_Babin" title="Brian Babin">Brian Babin</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_38th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 38th congressional district">TX-38</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Wesley_Hunt" title="Wesley Hunt">Wesley Hunt</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statewide_officials">Statewide officials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Statewide officials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Republicans control all nine of the elected statewide offices:</p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-nolines"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Governor: Greg Abbott"><img alt="Governor: Greg Abbott" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg/86px-Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg/130px-Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg/173px-Greg_Abbott_2015.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2054" data-file-height="2848" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Texas" title="Governor of Texas">Governor</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Greg Abbott</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dan_Patrick_Texas_(alt_crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lieutenant Governor: Dan Patrick"><img alt="Lieutenant Governor: Dan Patrick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg/96px-Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg/144px-Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg/192px-Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="341" data-file-height="426" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Texas" title="Lieutenant Governor of Texas">Lieutenant Governor</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Dan_Patrick_(politician)" title="Dan Patrick (politician)">Dan Patrick</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ken_Paxton.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Attorney General: Ken Paxton"><img alt="Attorney General: Ken Paxton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Ken_Paxton.jpg/79px-Ken_Paxton.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Ken_Paxton.jpg/119px-Ken_Paxton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Ken_Paxton.jpg/158px-Ken_Paxton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="461" data-file-height="698" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Texas_Attorney_General" title="Texas Attorney General">Attorney General</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Ken_Paxton" title="Ken Paxton">Ken Paxton</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hegar,_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Comptroller of Public Accounts: Glenn Hegar"><img alt="Comptroller of Public Accounts: Glenn Hegar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Hegar%2C_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg/86px-Hegar%2C_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Hegar%2C_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg/128px-Hegar%2C_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Hegar%2C_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg/171px-Hegar%2C_Glenn_-_09_5x7.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="525" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Texas_Comptroller_of_Public_Accounts" title="Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts">Comptroller of Public Accounts</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Hegar" title="Glenn Hegar">Glenn Hegar</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sen._Dawn_Buckingham,_M.D_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="State Land Commissioner: Dawn Buckingham"><img alt="State Land Commissioner: Dawn Buckingham" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Sen._Dawn_Buckingham%2C_M.D_%28cropped%29.jpg/90px-Sen._Dawn_Buckingham%2C_M.D_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Sen._Dawn_Buckingham%2C_M.D_%28cropped%29.jpg/135px-Sen._Dawn_Buckingham%2C_M.D_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Sen._Dawn_Buckingham%2C_M.D_%28cropped%29.jpg/181px-Sen._Dawn_Buckingham%2C_M.D_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="892" data-file-height="1185" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Texas_General_Land_Office" title="Texas General Land Office">State Land Commissioner:</a> <b><a href="/wiki/Dawn_Buckingham" title="Dawn Buckingham">Dawn Buckingham</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sid_Miller_USDA_event_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="State Agriculture Commissioner: Sid Miller"><img alt="State Agriculture Commissioner: Sid Miller" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sid_Miller_USDA_event_%28cropped%29.jpg/96px-Sid_Miller_USDA_event_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sid_Miller_USDA_event_%28cropped%29.jpg/144px-Sid_Miller_USDA_event_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sid_Miller_USDA_event_%28cropped%29.jpg/192px-Sid_Miller_USDA_event_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1093" data-file-height="1366" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Texas_Department_of_Agriculture" title="Texas Department of Agriculture">State Agriculture Commissioner</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Sid_Miller_(politician)" title="Sid Miller (politician)">Sid Miller</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wayne_Christian.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Railroad Commissioner: Wayne Christian"><img alt="Railroad Commissioner: Wayne Christian" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Wayne_Christian.jpg/96px-Wayne_Christian.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Wayne_Christian.jpg/144px-Wayne_Christian.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Wayne_Christian.jpg/192px-Wayne_Christian.jpg 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="250" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas" title="Railroad Commission of Texas">Railroad Commissioner</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Christian" title="Wayne Christian">Wayne Christian</a></b></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Christi_Craddick_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Railroad Commissioner: Christi Craddick"><img alt="Railroad Commissioner: Christi Craddick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Christi_Craddick_%28cropped%29.jpg/98px-Christi_Craddick_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="98" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Christi_Craddick_%28cropped%29.jpg/147px-Christi_Craddick_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Christi_Craddick_%28cropped%29.jpg/197px-Christi_Craddick_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1357" data-file-height="1655" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas" title="Railroad Commission of Texas">Railroad Commissioner</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Christi_Craddick" title="Christi Craddick">Christi Craddick</a></b></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_legislative_leaders">State legislative leaders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: State legislative leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-nolines"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 125px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 120px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dan_Patrick_Texas_(alt_crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lieutenant Governor: Dan Patrick"><img alt="Lieutenant Governor: Dan Patrick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg/96px-Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg/144px-Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg/192px-Dan_Patrick_Texas_%28alt_crop%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="341" data-file-height="426" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Texas" title="Lieutenant Governor of Texas">Lieutenant Governor</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Dan_Patrick_(politician)" title="Dan Patrick (politician)">Dan Patrick</a></b></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_Republican_Executive_Committee_Members">State Republican Executive Committee Members</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: State Republican Executive Committee Members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Biannually, in even-numbered years, delegates at the Texas GOP State Convention elect a man and a woman from each of the thirty-one State Senatorial districts to serve a two-year term on the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC). The State Republican Executive Committee along with the elected State Chair and State Vice Chair manage the affairs of the Republican Party of Texas between state conventions.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_state_party_chairs">List of state party chairs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: List of state party chairs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_L._Haynes" title="John L. Haynes">John L. Haynes</a> (1867–?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_J._Davis" title="Edmund J. Davis">Edmund J. Davis</a> (1875–1883)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norris_Wright_Cuney" title="Norris Wright Cuney">Norris Wright Cuney</a> (1886–1896)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Madison_McDonald" title="William Madison McDonald">William Madison McDonald</a> (1897–1898)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_Clay_Ferguson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Clay Ferguson (page does not exist)">Henry Clay Ferguson</a> (1898–1900)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_A._Lyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cecil A. Lyon (page does not exist)">Cecil A. Lyon</a> (1900–1916)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rentfro_Banton_Creager" title="Rentfro Banton Creager">Rentfro Creager</a> (1920–50)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orville_Bullington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Orville Bullington (page does not exist)">Orville Bullington</a> (1951–1952)</li> <li>Carlos Watson (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thad_Hutcheson" title="Thad Hutcheson">Thad Hutcheson</a> (1957–1960)</li> <li>Tad Smith (1961–1962)</li></ul> <dl><dt>State Party Chairmen since 1962</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Donnell_(Texas_businessman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter O'Donnell (Texas businessman)">Peter O'Donnell</a> (1962–1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Steger" title="William Steger">William Steger</a> (1969–1971)</li> <li>Missing (1971–1976)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ray_Hutchison_(attorney)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ray Hutchison (attorney) (page does not exist)">Ray Hutchison</a> – (1976–1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Barnhart" title="Ray Barnhart">Ray Barnhart</a> – (1977–1979)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chet_Upham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chet Upham (page does not exist)">Chet Upham</a> – (1979–1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Strake_Jr." title="George Strake Jr.">George Strake Jr.</a> – (1983–1988)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Meyer_(Texas_politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fred Meyer (Texas politician) (page does not exist)">Fred Meyer</a> – (1988–1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Pauken" title="Tom Pauken">Tom Pauken</a> – (1994–1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Weddington" title="Susan Weddington">Susan Weddington</a> – (1997–2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tina_Benkiser" title="Tina Benkiser">Tina Benkiser</a> – (2003–2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathie_Adams" title="Cathie Adams">Cathie Adams</a> – (2009–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Munisteri" title="Steve Munisteri">Steve Munisteri</a> – (2010–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Mechler" title="Tom Mechler">Tom Mechler</a> – (2015–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dickey_(Texas_politician)" title="James Dickey (Texas politician)">James Dickey</a> – (2017– 2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)" title="Allen West (politician)">Allen West</a> – (2020–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Rinaldi" title="Matt Rinaldi">Matt Rinaldi</a> – (2021–2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_George_(politician)" title="Abraham George (politician)">Abraham George</a> – (2024–present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Auxiliary_and_partner_organizations">Auxiliary and partner organizations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Auxiliary and partner organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party has a number of partner and auxiliary organizations,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the Texas Federation of College Republicans,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the High School Republicans of Texas, the Texas Federation of Republican Women (TFRW),<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Texas Republican Assembly,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 150 Black Men of Texas, the Juan Seguin Society,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Young Republicans of Texas,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Texas Asian Republican Assembly,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the MLK Association, the National Federation of Pachyderms - Texas Chapter, and the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gubernatorial">Gubernatorial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Gubernatorial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Texas Republican Party gubernatorial election results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Election </th> <th>Gubernatorial candidate </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>Vote % </th> <th>Result </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1994_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="1994 Texas gubernatorial election">1994</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> </td> <td>2,350,994 </td> <td>53.5% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1998_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="1998 Texas gubernatorial election">1998</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> </td> <td>2,550,821 </td> <td>68.2% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/2002_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2002 Texas gubernatorial election">2002</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rick_Perry" title="Rick Perry">Rick Perry</a> </td> <td>2,632,591 </td> <td>57.8% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Texas gubernatorial election">2006</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rick_Perry" title="Rick Perry">Rick Perry</a> </td> <td>1,716,803 </td> <td>39.0% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/2010_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2010 Texas gubernatorial election">2010</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rick_Perry" title="Rick Perry">Rick Perry</a> </td> <td>2,737,481 </td> <td>54.97% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/2014_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2014 Texas gubernatorial election">2014</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Greg Abbott</a> </td> <td>2,796,547 </td> <td>59.27% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/2018_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2018 Texas gubernatorial election">2018</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Greg Abbott</a> </td> <td>4,656,196 </td> <td>55.81% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/2022_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2022 Texas gubernatorial election">2022</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Greg Abbott</a> </td> <td>4,437,099 </td> <td>54.76% </td> <td><b>Won</b> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_legislature">State legislature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: State legislature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"> <caption>House </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Election year </th> <th>No. of<br />overall seats won </th> <th>+/– </th> <th>Governor </th> <th>Reference </th></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1964 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 0.7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/John_Connally" title="John Connally">John Connally</a> </td> <td rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;"><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorelandSteedBaker1991222_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorelandSteedBaker1991222-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1966 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">7 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#FFB6B6"> <th>1968 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1970 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">10 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Preston_Smith_(governor)" title="Preston Smith (governor)">Preston Smith</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1972 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">17 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 7 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1974 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">16 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Dolph_Briscoe" title="Dolph Briscoe">Dolph Briscoe</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1976 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">22 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 15%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1978 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">19 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 13%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1980 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">35 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 23%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 16 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Clements" title="Bill Clements">Bill Clements</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1982 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">36 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 24%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1984 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">52 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 35%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 16 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mark_White_(Texas_politician)" title="Mark White (Texas politician)">Mark White</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1986 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">56 / 150</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 37%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4 </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"> <caption>Senate </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Election year </th> <th>No. of<br />overall seats won </th> <th>+/– </th> <th>Governor </th> <th>Reference </th></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1964 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/John_Connally" title="John Connally">John Connally</a> </td> <td rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;"><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorelandSteedBaker1991222_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorelandSteedBaker1991222-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1966 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1968 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1970 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Preston_Smith_(governor)" title="Preston Smith (governor)">Preston Smith</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1972 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1974 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Dolph_Briscoe" title="Dolph Briscoe">Dolph Briscoe</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1976 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">4 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 13%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1978 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">5 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 16%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1980 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">8 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 26%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Clements" title="Bill Clements">Bill Clements</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1982 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">5 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 16%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1984 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">6 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 19%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mark_White_(Texas_politician)" title="Mark White (Texas politician)">Mark White</a> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"> <th>1986 </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">6 / 31</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 19%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Elected Next Texas GOP Chair Ahead of 2024 General, Closed Primary Rule Established</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Texan_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Texan (website)">The Texan</a></i>, May 24, 2024.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbbott1986131-132-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAbbott1986131-132_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAbbott1986">Abbott 1986</a>, p. 131-132.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MOTTU-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MOTTU_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070205173917/http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/A-A.%20Teacher%27s%20Manual.pdf"><i>African-American Pioneers of 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(1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/1988presidential0000unse"><i>The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity Amidst Change in Southern Party Politics</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Publishing_Group" title="Greenwood Publishing Group">Praeger Publishers</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0275931455" title="Special:BookSources/0275931455"><bdi>0275931455</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+1988+Presidential+Election+in+the+South%3A+Continuity+Amidst+Change+in+Southern+Party+Politics&rft.pub=Praeger+Publishers&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0275931455&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2F1988presidential0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+Party+of+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_of_Texas&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.texasgop.org/">The Republican Party of Texas website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.texashousecaucus.com/">Texas House Republican Caucus</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tfrw.org/">Texas Federation of Republican women</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texasyoungrepublicans.com/">Texas Young Republican Federation</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://3npv5lo075n4f1mrxbxvz8hv-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PERM-PLATFORM-as-Amended-by-Gen-Body-5.13.16.pdf">2016 Texas Republican Party Platform</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Republican_Party" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#FFB6B6;;background:#E81B23; 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Frémont">Frémont</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_L._Dayton" title="William L. Dayton">Dayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1860_Republican_National_Convention" title="1860 Republican National Convention">1860 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a>/<a href="/wiki/Hannibal_Hamlin" title="Hannibal Hamlin">Hamlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_National_Union_National_Convention" title="1864 National Union National Convention">1864 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a>/<a href="/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" title="Andrew Johnson">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Republican_National_Convention" title="1868 Republican National Convention">1868 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a>/<a href="/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax" title="Schuyler Colfax">Colfax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Republican_National_Convention" title="1872 Republican National Convention">1872 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a>/<a href="/wiki/Henry_Wilson" title="Henry Wilson">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Republican_National_Convention" title="1876 Republican National Convention">1876 (Cincinnati)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Rutherford B. Hayes">Hayes</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_A._Wheeler" title="William A. Wheeler">Wheeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1880_Republican_National_Convention" title="1880 Republican National Convention">1880 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield" title="James A. Garfield">Garfield</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur" title="Chester A. Arthur">Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1884_Republican_National_Convention" title="1884 Republican National Convention">1884 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_G._Blaine" title="James G. Blaine">Blaine</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_A._Logan" title="John A. Logan">Logan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1888_Republican_National_Convention" title="1888 Republican National Convention">1888 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Harrison</a>/<a href="/wiki/Levi_P._Morton" title="Levi P. Morton">Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_Republican_National_Convention" title="1892 Republican National Convention">1892 (Minneapolis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Harrison</a>/<a href="/wiki/Whitelaw_Reid" title="Whitelaw Reid">Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1896_Republican_National_Convention" title="1896 Republican National Convention">1896 (Saint Louis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">McKinley</a>/<a href="/wiki/Garret_Hobart" title="Garret Hobart">Hobart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_Republican_National_Convention" title="1900 Republican National Convention">1900 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">McKinley</a>/<a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_Republican_National_Convention" title="1904 Republican National Convention">1904 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Fairbanks" title="Charles W. Fairbanks">Fairbanks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Republican_National_Convention" title="1908 Republican National Convention">1908 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">Taft</a>/<a href="/wiki/James_S._Sherman" title="James S. Sherman">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_Republican_National_Convention" title="1912 Republican National Convention">1912 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">Taft</a>/<a href="/wiki/James_S._Sherman" title="James S. Sherman">Sherman</a>/<a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler" title="Nicholas Murray Butler">Butler</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1912_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1912 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_Republican_National_Convention" title="1916 Republican National Convention">1916 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Hughes</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Fairbanks" title="Charles W. Fairbanks">Fairbanks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1916_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1916 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_Republican_National_Convention" title="1920 Republican National Convention">1920 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Harding</a>/<a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1920_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1920 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_Republican_National_Convention" title="1924 Republican National Convention">1924 (Cleveland)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_G._Dawes" title="Charles G. Dawes">Dawes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1924_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1924 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_Republican_National_Convention" title="1928 Republican National Convention">1928 (Kansas City)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Hoover</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_Curtis" title="Charles Curtis">Curtis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1928_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1928 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_Republican_National_Convention" title="1932 Republican National Convention">1932 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Hoover</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_Curtis" title="Charles Curtis">Curtis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1932_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1932 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_Republican_National_Convention" title="1936 Republican National Convention">1936 (Cleveland)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alf_Landon" title="Alf Landon">Landon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frank_Knox" title="Frank Knox">Knox</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1936_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1936 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_Republican_National_Convention" title="1940 Republican National Convention">1940 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wendell_Willkie" title="Wendell Willkie">Willkie</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_L._McNary" title="Charles L. McNary">McNary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1940_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1940 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_Republican_National_Convention" title="1944 Republican National Convention">1944 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Dewey</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_W._Bricker" title="John W. Bricker">Bricker</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1944_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1944 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Republican_National_Convention" title="1948 Republican National Convention">1948 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Dewey</a>/<a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Warren</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1948_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1948 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention">1952 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a>/<a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_National_Convention" title="1956 Republican National Convention">1956 (San Francisco)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a>/<a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1956 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_National_Convention" title="1960 Republican National Convention">1960 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Lodge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_National_Convention" title="1964 Republican National Convention">1964 (San Francisco)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Goldwater</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_E._Miller" title="William E. Miller">Miller</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1964 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_National_Convention" title="1968 Republican National Convention">1968 (Miami Beach)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Agnew</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_National_Convention" title="1972 Republican National Convention">1972 (Miami Beach)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Agnew</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1972 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Republican_National_Convention" title="1976 Republican National Convention">1976 (Kansas City)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Ford</a>/<a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1976_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1976 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Republican_National_Convention" title="1980 Republican National Convention">1980 (Detroit)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1980_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1980 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Republican_National_Convention" title="1984 Republican National Convention">1984 (Dallas)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1984_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1984 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Republican_National_Convention" title="1988 Republican National Convention">1988 (New Orleans)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Quayle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1988_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1988 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Republican_National_Convention" title="1992 Republican National Convention">1992 (Houston)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Quayle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1992_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1992 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Republican_National_Convention" title="1996 Republican National Convention">1996 (San Diego)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a>/<a href="/wiki/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp">Kemp</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1996_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1996 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Republican_National_Convention" title="2000 Republican National Convention">2000 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">G. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2000_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2000 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention" title="2004 Republican National Convention">2004 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">G. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2004_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2004 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Republican_National_Convention" title="2008 Republican National Convention">2008 (St. Paul)</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">McCain</a>/<a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Palin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2008 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention" title="2012 Republican National Convention">2012 (Tampa)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Romney</a>/<a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2012 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Republican_National_Convention" title="2016 Republican National Convention">2016 (Cleveland)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Pence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2016 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Republican_National_Convention" title="2020 Republican National Convention">2020 (Charlotte/other locations)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Pence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2020 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_National_Convention" title="2024 Republican National Convention">2024 (Milwaukee)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>/<a href="/wiki/JD_Vance" title="JD Vance">Vance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2024 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2028_Republican_National_Convention" title="2028 Republican National Convention">2028 (Houston)</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">Presidential</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Administration_(government)" title="Administration (government)">administrations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Presidency of Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a> (1861–1865)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Presidency of Andrew Johnson">Johnson</a> (1865–1868)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a> (1869–1877)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes">Hayes</a> (1877–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield" title="James A. Garfield">Garfield</a> (1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Chester_A._Arthur" title="Presidency of Chester A. Arthur">Arthur</a> (1881–1885)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Benjamin_Harrison" title="Presidency of Benjamin Harrison">Harrison</a> (1889–1893)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_McKinley" title="Presidency of William McKinley">McKinley</a> (1897–1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a> (1901–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_Howard_Taft" title="Presidency of William Howard Taft">Taft</a> (1909–1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Warren_G._Harding" title="Presidency of Warren G. Harding">Harding</a> (1921–1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Calvin_Coolidge" title="Presidency of Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a> (1923–1929)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Herbert_Hoover" title="Presidency of Herbert Hoover">Hoover</a> (1929–1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a> (1953–1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> (1969–1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Gerald_Ford" title="Presidency of Gerald Ford">Ford</a> (1974–1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="Presidency of Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a> (1981–1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_H._W._Bush" title="Presidency of George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a> (1989–1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">G. W. Bush</a> (2001–2009)</li> <li>Trump (<a href="/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidency of Donald Trump">2017–2021</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">U.S. House<br />leaders</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives">Speakers</a>,<br />and<br /><a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">Conference<br />chairs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Pennington" title="William Pennington">Pennington</a> (1860–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galusha_A._Grow" title="Galusha A. Grow">Grow</a> (1861–1863)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax" title="Schuyler Colfax">Colfax</a> (1863–1869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_M._Pomeroy" title="Theodore M. Pomeroy">Pomeroy</a> (1869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_G._Blaine" title="James G. Blaine">Blaine</a> (1869–1875)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._McCrary" title="George W. McCrary">McCrary</a> (1875–1877)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Hale" title="Eugene Hale">Hale</a> (1877–1879)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_P._Frye" title="William P. Frye">Frye</a> (1879–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Warren_Keifer" title="J. Warren Keifer">Keifer</a> (1881–1883)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon" title="Joseph Gurney Cannon">Cannon</a> (1883–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brackett_Reed" title="Thomas Brackett Reed">Reed</a> (1889–1891)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Henderson_(politician)" title="Thomas J. Henderson (politician)">T. J. Henderson</a> (1891–1895)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brackett_Reed" title="Thomas Brackett Reed">Reed</a> (1895–1899)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_B._Henderson" title="David B. Henderson">D. B. Henderson</a> (1899–1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon" title="Joseph Gurney Cannon">Cannon</a> (1903–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Robert_Mann_(Illinois_politician)" title="James Robert Mann (Illinois politician)">Mann</a> (1911–1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_H._Gillett" title="Frederick H. Gillett">Gillett</a> (1919–1925)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Longworth" title="Nicholas Longworth">Longworth</a> (1925–1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Snell" title="Bertrand Snell">Snell</a> (1931–1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_W._Martin_Jr." title="Joseph W. Martin Jr.">Martin</a> (1939–1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Halleck" title="Charles A. Halleck">Halleck</a> (1959–1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Ford</a> (1965–1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jacob_Rhodes" title="John Jacob Rhodes">Rhodes</a> (1973–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._Michel" title="Robert H. Michel">Michel</a> (1981–1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Gingrich</a> (1995–1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert">Hastert</a> (1999–2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">Boehner</a> (2007–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a> (2015–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy">McCarthy</a> (2019–2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Johnson" title="Mike Johnson">Johnson</a> (2023–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">RNC</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Chairs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_D._Morgan" title="Edwin D. Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Jarvis_Raymond" title="Henry Jarvis Raymond">Raymond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Lawrence_Ward" title="Marcus Lawrence Ward">Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Claflin" title="William Claflin">Claflin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_D._Morgan" title="Edwin D. Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zachariah_Chandler" title="Zachariah Chandler">Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Donald_Cameron" title="J. Donald Cameron">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Jewell" title="Marshall Jewell">Jewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_M._Sabin" title="Dwight M. Sabin">Sabin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Jones_(industrialist)" title="Benjamin Franklin Jones (industrialist)">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Quay" title="Matthew Quay">Quay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_S._Clarkson" title="James S. Clarkson">Clarkson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_James_Campbell" title="William James Campbell">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_H._Carter" title="Thomas H. Carter">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Hanna" title="Mark Hanna">Hanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay_Payne" title="Henry Clay Payne">Payne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_B._Cortelyou" title="George B. Cortelyou">Cortelyou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._New" title="Harry S. New">New</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Harris_Hitchcock" title="Frank Harris Hitchcock">Hitchcock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Fremont_Hill" title="John Fremont Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Rosewater" title="Victor Rosewater">Rosewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_D._Hilles" title="Charles D. Hilles">Hilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Russell_Willcox" title="William Russell Willcox">Wilcox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_H._Hays" title="Will H. Hays">Hays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Adams" title="John T. Adams">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_M._Butler" title="William M. Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Work" title="Hubert Work">Work</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudius_H._Huston" title="Claudius H. Huston">Huston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simeon_D._Fess" title="Simeon D. Fess">Fess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Sanders" title="Everett Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_P._Fletcher" title="Henry P. Fletcher">Fletcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hamilton_(Kansas_politician)" title="John Hamilton (Kansas politician)">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_W._Martin_Jr." title="Joseph W. Martin Jr.">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailey_Walsh" title="Bailey Walsh">Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_E._Spangler" title="Harrison E. Spangler">Spangler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Brownell_Jr." title="Herbert Brownell Jr.">Brownell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Carroll_Reece" title="B. Carroll Reece">Reece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Scott" title="Hugh Scott">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Gabrielson" title="Guy Gabrielson">Gabrielson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Summerfield" title="Arthur Summerfield">Summerfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Wesley_Roberts" title="C. Wesley Roberts">Roberts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_W._Hall" title="Leonard W. Hall">Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meade_Alcorn" title="Meade Alcorn">Alcorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thruston_Ballard_Morton" title="Thruston Ballard Morton">T. Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Miller" title="William E. Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Burch" title="Dean Burch">Burch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_C._Bliss" title="Ray C. Bliss">Bliss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogers_Morton" title="Rogers Morton">R. Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Louise_Smith_(politician)" title="Mary Louise Smith (politician)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Brock" title="Bill Brock">Brock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Richards_(Utah_politician)" title="Richard Richards (Utah politician)">Richards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Laxalt" title="Paul Laxalt">Laxalt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frank_Fahrenkopf" title="Frank Fahrenkopf">Fahrenkopf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Fahrenkopf" title="Frank Fahrenkopf">Fahrenkopf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Atwater" title="Lee Atwater">Atwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_Yeutter" title="Clayton Yeutter">Yeutter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bond_(political_executive)" title="Richard Bond (political executive)">Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haley_Barbour" title="Haley Barbour">Barbour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Nicholson_(Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs)" title="Jim Nicholson (Secretary of Veterans Affairs)">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gilmore" title="Jim Gilmore">Gilmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Racicot" title="Marc Racicot">Racicot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Gillespie" title="Ed Gillespie">Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Mehlman" title="Ken Mehlman">Mehlman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Mart%C3%ADnez" title="Mel Martínez">Martínez</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mike_Duncan" title="Mike Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Duncan" title="Mike Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Steele" title="Michael Steele">Steele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reince_Priebus" title="Reince Priebus">Priebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronna_McDaniel" title="Ronna McDaniel">McDaniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Whatley" title="Michael Whatley">Whatley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Chair elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2009_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2011 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2013 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2015 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2017 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2019_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2019 Republican National Committee chairmanship election (page does not exist)">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2021_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2021 Republican National Committee chairmanship election (page does not exist)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2023 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_parties_of_the_Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="List of state parties of the Republican Party (United States)">Parties</a> by<br />state and<br />territory</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">State</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Republican_Party" title="Alabama Republican Party">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alaska_Republican_Party" title="Alaska Republican Party">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arizona_Republican_Party" title="Arizona Republican Party">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Arkansas" title="Republican Party of Arkansas">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Republican_Party" title="Colorado Republican Party">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Republican_Party" title="Connecticut Republican Party">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_State_Committee_of_Delaware" title="Republican State Committee of Delaware">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Florida" title="Republican Party of Florida">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Republican_Party" title="Georgia Republican Party">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaii_Republican_Party" title="Hawaii Republican Party">Hawaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idaho_Republican_Party" title="Idaho Republican Party">Idaho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinois_Republican_Party" title="Illinois Republican Party">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Republican_Party" title="Indiana Republican Party">Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Iowa" title="Republican Party of Iowa">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Republican_Party" title="Kansas Republican Party">Kansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Kentucky" title="Republican Party of Kentucky">Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Louisiana" title="Republican Party of Louisiana">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maine_Republican_Party" title="Maine Republican Party">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland_Republican_Party" title="Maryland Republican Party">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Republican_Party" title="Massachusetts Republican Party">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_Republican_Party" title="Michigan Republican Party">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Minnesota" title="Republican Party of Minnesota">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Republican_Party" title="Mississippi Republican Party">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_Republican_Party" title="Missouri Republican Party">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montana_Republican_Party" title="Montana Republican Party">Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Republican_Party" title="Nebraska Republican Party">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada_Republican_Party" title="Nevada Republican Party">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Republican_State_Committee" title="New Hampshire Republican State Committee">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Republican_Party" title="New Jersey Republican Party">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_New_Mexico" title="Republican Party of New Mexico">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Republican_State_Committee" title="New York Republican State Committee">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Republican_Party" title="North Carolina Republican Party">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_Republican_Party" title="North Dakota Republican Party">North Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Republican_Party" title="Ohio Republican Party">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Republican_Party" title="Oklahoma Republican Party">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon_Republican_Party" title="Oregon Republican Party">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Republican_Party" title="Pennsylvania Republican Party">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Republican_Party" title="Rhode Island Republican Party">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Republican_Party" title="South Carolina Republican Party">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_Republican_Party" title="South Dakota Republican Party">South Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Republican_Party" title="Tennessee Republican Party">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah_Republican_Party" title="Utah Republican Party">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermont_Republican_Party" title="Vermont Republican Party">Vermont</a></li> <li><a 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