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78-Year-Old Democrat Makes Way For Rising Far-Left Star After Republicans Got Their Way With Redistricting
Longtime Democratic Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced Aug. 21 that he will not seek reelection in the state’s redrawn 37th congressional district following the GOP’s mid-decade redistricting push. Doggett , 78, had…
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About Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Alton Doggett II is an American lawyer and politician serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas since 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Doggett was a member of the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985 and a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1989 to 1994. Doggett represents the same district President Lyndon B. Johnson once represented from 1937 until 1949.
Everything about Lloyd Doggett →- Occupation
- politician, judge, lawyer, adjunct professor
- Position held
- member of the State Senate of Texas, judge, United States representative, United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 6, 1946
- Website
- https://doggett.house.gov/