William Ralph Keffer was born on September 15,1958 and is an attorney in Dallas, Texas, who was from 2003 to 2007 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 107.
10 Facts About Bill Keffer
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Bill Keffer's older brother, Jim Keffer, is a still-serving Republican House member from District 60 in Eastland, near Abilene, Texas.
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Bill Keffer was born in McCamey in energy-rich Upton County in West Texas.
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Bill Keffer graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in the field of history in 1981 from Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas.
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Bill Keffer is a board member of the Dallas chapter of the Federalist Society, a group of lawyers advocating strict construction of the Constitution of the United States He has been chairman of his neighborhood crime watch and president of his homeowner association.
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Bill Keffer has penned editorials for such publications as the Dallas Morning News, the Lone Star Report and the Lake Highlands Advocate magazine, named for the Lake Highlands section of north Dallas.
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Bill Keffer was unopposed for his second term in 2004 but unseated in 2006 by the Democrat Allen Vaught, 16,254 to 15,145.
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In 2012, after a six-year absence from the legislature, Bill Keffer tried to win the District 114 seat vacated in north Dallas by the retiring Republican Will Ford Hartnett, another Dallas lawyer.
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Bill Keffer had represented the eastern part of the district when he was the District 107 representative.
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Bill Keffer endorsed a zero-based budgeting approach to control excessive state spending.