1. Kenn George served as a State Representative from Dallas County in the Texas House of Representatives from 1999 until 2003.
17 Facts About Kenn George
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In 1970, Kenn George graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
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Kenn George earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the student body president of the graduate business school.
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From 1981 to 1985, Kenn George was an assistant secretary of commerce, under Malcolm Baldrige, Jr.
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In 1998, Kenn George unseated incumbent Republican State Representative Carolyn Galloway in the party primary, 6,063 votes to 4,867.
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Kenn George was then unopposed in the general election, having won 27,220 votes.
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Four years later in the two-man land commissioner's race, Kenn George trailed with 252,802 votes to Patterson's 328,523.
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Kenn George was succeeded in the House by Moderate Republican attorney Dan Branch, a devotee of former US Senator John Tower.
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Kenn George has been honored by Right to Life in Austin, the American Cancer Society, and the Texas Transplant Society.
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Kenn George wrote the House bill establishing the Umbilical Cord Blood Bank, which provides medical researchers an ethical alternative to stem cell research.
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Kenn George was an early supporter of George W Bush, having been part of the unsuccessful congressional race in 1978 against then Democrat and later Republican Kent Hance, the former chancellor of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
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Kenn George was the Midland County Republican finance chairman at the time.
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Kenn George remains a large Republican donor, having contributed to Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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Kenn George is a former president of Olix Industries, a publicly-traded energy company.
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Kenn George co-founded Epic Healthcare Group, a $1.4 billion corporation with nearly 15,000 employees operating in 37 hospitals in 30 states.
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Kenn George is a former executive with Trammell Crow real estate development in Dallas and a third-generation rancher.
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Kenn George now owns Blue Harbor Tropical, a tour company.