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David Henry Dewhurst (born August 18, 1945) is an American politician who was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Texas, serving from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Texas Land Commissioner from 1999 to 2003. Dewhurst was a candidate in 2012 for the U.S. 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. Dewhurst was a candidate for a fourth four-year term in the Republican runoff election held on May 27, 2014. He was handily unseated by his intraparty rival and fellow Houstonian State Senator Dan Patrick who also led the primary balloting with 550,769 votes (41.5 percent). Dewhurst trailed with 376,196 votes (28.3 percent). Eliminated in the primary were Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples with 235,981 votes (17.8 percent) and Texas Land commissioner Jerry E. Patterson with 165,787 (12.5 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014 )〕 Patterson had succeeded Dewhurst as land commissioner in 2002 when Dewhurst was first elected as lieutenant governor. On a night of "embarrassingly low"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seven takeaways from the May 27 primaries )〕 voter turnout (approximately 4% of registered voters), the incumbent finished with only 262,086 votes (34.9 percent), compared to Patrick's 487,829 (65.1 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2014 Republican Party Primary Runoff: Election Night Returns )〕 Dewhurst's third term as lieutenant governor ended on January 20, 2015. ==Personal life== Dewhurst's father, David Dewhurst Jr., was a WW2 pilote of a Martin B-26 Marauder of the 553d Fighter-Bomber Squadron. On D-Day, flying over Cotentin peninsula in the "Dinah Might", he is leading a squadron and is bombing the German strongpoint WN5 on Utah Beach. After the war, David Dewhurst Jr. is killed by a drunk driver on the 5th of November, 1948 leaving behind his wife and his two sons, David and Eugene. Both of them visit the Utah Beach Museum on June 7, 2007 and discover an exhibit detailing their father’s mission on D-Day along with pictures of him. Moved, the Dewhurst brother's contributed in millions of dollars for the extension of the museum, allowing it to purchase a B-26 Marauder and to open a new building〔(PPG Aerospace coatings capture colors of World War II bomber - Repainted B-26G Marauder now on display at Utah Beach museum in Normandy )〕〔(Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst shares story of lost father, World War II veteran )〕.〔(Rencontre avec les frères Dewhurst )〕 Dewhurst is a businessman, a rancher, and a community leader in Houston, where he has served on civic and charitable boards. He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston〔"(Distinguished HISD Alumni )," ''Houston Independent School District''〕 and earned his bachelor's degree and played basketball at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, where he was a brother of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was previously an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dewhurst Drops Restraint Over Stints in Air Force, CIA )〕 and worked in the United States State Department. In 1981, Dewhurst and Ted Law re-established Falcon Seaboard, a Texas-based diversified energy and investments company in Houston that Law had founded in 1935. He breeds registered Black Angus cattle and once competed in National Cutting Horse Association competitions. Dewhurst is worth an estimated $200 million. He also speaks Spanish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Dewhurst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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