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Jerry Emmett Patterson (born November 15, 1946), is the former Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas and a former state senator. He is the second Republican since Reconstruction to serve as land commissioner, a post which he held from 2003 to 2015. He served from the Houston area in District 11 in the state Senate from 1993 to 1999. As the Republican nominee for his third and final term in the November 2, 2010, general election, Patterson easily defeated the Democrat Hector Uribe, a former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature. Patterson did not seek a fourth term as Land Commissioner. He was instead an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in the primary election held on March 4, 2014. Victory went instead to Dan Patrick. ==Political career== In 1984 Patterson ran for the a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas' 25th congressional district. He faced freshman Democratic Representative Michael A. Andrews and lost, 64 to 36 percent. The district comprised mainly blue collar Democratic areas around eastern Harris County in cities like Pasadena and Deer Park. In March 1998, Patterson lost the Republican primary for land commissioner to David Dewhurst, also from Houston, who left the position after a single term to become lieutenant governor. Dewhurst led with 265,363 votes (51.2 percent). Patterson trailed with 216,250 votes (41.7 percent), and a third candidate, Don Loucks, held the remaining 36,706 votes (7.1 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Texas Republican primary election returns, March 10, 1998 )〕 In the 2002 Republican primary for Texas land commissioner, Patterson defeated Kenn George of Dallas, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 108 and an assistant United States Secretary of Commerce in the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenn George for Texas Land Commissioner )〕 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「Jerry E. Patterson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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