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Mark McGregor Shelton (born November 8, 1956), is a pediatrician at the Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Shelton's Biography )〕From 2009 to 2013, he represented House District 97 in Tarrant County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Shelton )〕 Shelton did not seek reelection in 2012 but instead ran a strong but unsuccessful race for the District 10 seat in the Texas State Senate, having lost to the Democratic incumbent Wendy R. Davis, who is her party's 2014 gubernatorial nominee against Republican Greg Abbott. Shelton ran again in 2014 for the same Senate seat but was handily defeated by the more conservative challenger, Konni Burton, a businesswoman from Colleyville in Tarrant County, a favorite of the Tea Party movement.〔Burton received 17,435 votes (60.2 percent) to Shelton's 6,237 (38.9 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2014 Republican Party Primary Runoff: Election Night Returns )〕 ==Background== Shelton's place of birth is not available. The website intelius.com reports that he formerly lived in Edmond, Oklahoma.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark McGregor Shelton )〕 He was reared in Arlington in Tarrant County and graduated from Lamar High School there. In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In 1983, he received his M.D. from Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Bryan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Shelton )〕 〔 Since 1988, Shelton has been the director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Program at the Cook Medical Center. He specializes in the control of infectious diseases and has directed the pediatric AIDS unit. He is active in community affairs, including the Boy Scouts of America, having himself been an Eagle Scout. He has raised funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities and the Lena Pope Home, an orphanage in Fort Worth.〔 Shelton and his wife, the former Mary Ann Osterhoudt (born c. 1956), have four children, Richard Bryce, Andrew James, Peter, and Betsy. He is a member of the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Shelton's Biography )〕 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「Mark M. Shelton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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