1. Larry Ed Combest was born on March 20,1945 and is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the US House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
11 Facts About Larry Combest
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Larry Combest then became legislative assistant to Republican US Senator John Tower from 1971 to 1978, having left after Tower won his fourth and final term in office.
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From 1978 until his election to Congress six years later, Larry Combest was in private business.
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Larry Combest won the Republican nomination in a runoff over fellow Lubbock conservative Ron Fleming.
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Larry Combest was only the third person to represent the 19th District since its creation in 1934, and the first Republican.
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Larry Combest was thus one of six freshmen Republican congressmen elected from Texas in 1984 known as the Texas Six Pack.
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However, proving just how Republican this district had become at the national level, Larry Combest was reelected nine times with no substantive Democratic opposition.
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Larry Combest ran unopposed in 1990 and 1994 and with no major-party opposition in 2000 and 2002.
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Larry Combest served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee in the 104th Congress and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in the 106th and 107th Congresses.
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Fellow Republican Randy Neugebauer won the special election to replace Larry Combest and was sworn into office on June 3,2003.
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In 2006, lawyers for the NAACP discovered that Larry Combest was one of six Republican congressional leaders who secretly requested an IRS investigation into the NAACP's tax-exempt status after NAACP chairman Julian Bond called Bush's policies racially divisive.