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John True Smithee (born September 7, 1951) is an Amarillo attorney who has been the Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 86 in the Texas Panhandle since January 1985. Although Smithee succeeded a Democrat, Robert Dwight "Bob" Simpson (born 1943), who had served for a decade, District 86 is now considered the most Republican state House jurisdiction in the entire state. Voters there cast more than 83 percent of their ballots for Mitt Romney in his 2012 race against the Democrat U.S. President Barack H. Obama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Enrique Rangel, "Democrats not jumping at chance to run for West Texas, statewide office: The Wendy Davis factor" )〕 District 86 includes rural Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, and Deaf Smith counties. Smithee's district office is in Amarillo. He represents that part of Amarillo, some 40 percent of the population, located to the south of the central city within Randall County. The remainder of Amarillo, the seat of Potter County, is represented by Smithee's Republican colleague, Four Price, a lawyer from Amarillo. Smithee is chairman of the House Insurance Committee and serves on the Higher Education Committee. Smithee was first elected to the Texas House in 1984, when he was thirty-three. He was reelected to his twelfth two-year term in 2006 with 86.5 percent of the vote over a Libertarian Party opponent. Democrats rarely contest the district any more. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from West Texas A&M University (then West Texas State University) in Canyon, the seat of Randall County, and his Juris Doctor from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is married to Becky Lynn Smithee (born January 7, 1956). == 2009 Race For Texas House Speaker == On December 29, 2008, Smithee announced, via the online political newsletter, ''Quorum Report'', that he had received "more than twenty calls" from fellow Texas House members and that he would announce within forty-eight hours whether or not he would seek unseat incumbent Republican Texas Speaker Tom Craddick of Midland.〔"Will Smithee be 13th warrior in Speaker's race?", capitolannex.com, December 29, 2008〕 Smithee did not enter the race, won instead by another Republican, Joe Straus of San Antonio, who upset the incumbent Tom Craddick of Midland. 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「John T. Smithee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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