31 Facts About David Dewhurst

David Henry Dewhurst was born on August 18,1945 and is an American politician, businessman, and attorney who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Texas from 2003 to 2015.

David Dewhurst was a candidate in 2012 for the US Senate seat vacated by the retiring Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, but he lost his party's runoff election to former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, who went on to win the general election.

David Dewhurst served as an advisory board member at the United States Secretary of Energy led by former Governor Rick Perry who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017.

Moved, the David Dewhurst brothers contributed millions of dollars for the extension of the museum, allowing it to purchase a B-26 Marauder and to open a new building.

David Dewhurst is a businessman, a rancher, and a community leader in Houston, where he has served on civic and charitable boards.

In 1981, David Dewhurst and Ted Law re-established Falcon Seaboard, a Texas-based diversified energy and investments company in Houston that Law had founded in 1935.

David Dewhurst quickly made Dewhurst a millionaire, but collapsed just as quickly, going into bankruptcy.

David Dewhurst then went into business constructing cogeneration plants, which proved to be a tremendous success.

In 1996, the company sold its plants for $226 million, and in 2011, David Dewhurst was worth an estimated $200 million.

In 1995, David Dewhurst married Tammy Jo Hopkins, a 32-year-old model.

The arrest record said David Dewhurst was trying to board a bus back to Houston when he realized his girlfriend, Leslie Caron, 41, had taken his laptop.

David Dewhurst ran with it and he chased her onto a patio area near the hotel entrance trying to retrieve his laptop computer, when she fell over a concrete bench.

David Dewhurst breeds registered Black Angus cattle and once competed in National Cutting Horse Association competitions.

David Dewhurst was opposed in the general election by Democratic State Representative Richard Raymond, then of Benavides and thereafter of Laredo.

David Dewhurst described himself as a "George Bush Republican" and drew on his personal wealth to spend a record $8 million on his run for office.

The campaign was a bitter one, in which Dewhurst's Republican primary opponent, Jerry E Patterson, accused Dewhurst of trying to bribe him to leave the race, and Raymond unsuccessfully accused him of embezzlement.

David Dewhurst ultimately received 2,072,604 votes to Raymond's 1,438,378 ballots.

David Dewhurst was the first Republican to serve as Land Commissioner since the Reconstruction era.

In that campaign, David Dewhurst stressed his interest in public education and opposition to school vouchers.

David Dewhurst polled 2,341,875 votes to Sharp's 2,082,281.

David Dewhurst was renominated for lieutenant governor in the Republican primary held on March 7,2006.

David Dewhurst defeated Tom Kelly, the same candidate whom he bested for the nomination in 2002.

David Dewhurst received 2,512,197 votes to Alvarado's 1,616,945.

David Dewhurst was his party's nominee for a third term as lieutenant governor and faced Democrat Linda Chavez-Thompson, Libertarian Scott Jameson, and Green Party Herb Gonzales, Jr.

David Dewhurst was re-elected to a third term on November 2,2010, having polled 3,044,770 votes to the Democrat Linda Chavez-Thompson's 1,715,735 votes and took office on January 18,2011, for a third four-year term, becoming the second Texas Lieutenant Governor to be elected to three four-year terms since Bill Hobby, who held the office for 18 years for five terms.

Patrick said after state Senator Wendy Davis of Fort Worth filibustered the bill to ban late-term abortions in Texas that David Dewhurst has "lost his grip on the reins of the Senate".

Polling by the University of Texas at Austin and The Texas Tribune had showed David Dewhurst leading his opponents in the primary with 26 percent of the vote, to Patrick's 13 percent, Patterson's 10 percent and Staples' 5 percent.

David Dewhurst was accused by state senator Dan Patrick of helping to stop a bill, the passage of which would have been an attempt to make the pat downs of airplane passengers by personnel of the US Transportation Security Agency a felony in Texas.

The day before the performance, David Dewhurst issued his statement saying, "No one should have the right to use government funds or institutions to portray acts that are morally reprehensible to the vast majority of Americans," and the performance was cancelled by the professor, who cited safety concerns.

David Dewhurst tells a police sergeant that Ellen Bevers, his stepsister's daughter-in-law, is a schoolteacher and "the sweetest woman in the world", and says he's sure she has been incarcerated on a "mistaken charge".

On July 18,2011, David Dewhurst addressed his supporters in an online video on his campaign website, announcing his candidacy for the vacant US Senate seat for the Republican nomination.