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Ronald Ellis Simmons, known as Ron Simmons (born September 21, 1960)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rep. Ron Simmons (R) )〕 is an investment advisor from Carrollton, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 65 in suburban southeastern Denton County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ron Simmons )〕 First elected in 2012, Simmons sought a second two-year term in the general election scheduled for November 4, 2014, where he defeated the Democrat Alex Mendoza of Lewisville, Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Uncontested races, March 5, 2014 )〕Mendoza ran unsuccessfully against Simmons in the 2012 general election as the nominee that year of the Green Party.〔 ==Background== The son of public schoolteachers, Simmons was reared in southern Arkansas. His website biographies do not list his place of birth or the locations where he lived prior to enrolling at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia in Columbia County. Simmons is married to the former Lisa Dickson, a native of El Dorado, Arkansas. After several years of marriage, the couple left Arkansas in 1985 and settled in Dallas, where he completed his Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Dallas Baptist University. In 1991, Simmons founded Retirement Advisors of America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Rep. Ron Simmons District 65 (R-Carrollton) )〕 Retirement Advisors of America manages nearly $1.7 billion in assets for families across the country and provides jobs for thirty-five employees and fifteen independent contractors. In 2010, Simmons was named by ''D Magazine'' as one of the top financial advisors in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The trade publication ''Investment News'' has named Retirement Advisors of America among the top thirty financial advisors in the United States.〔 Simmons and his wife, the former Lisa Diane Dickson (born c. 1960), have three children, Justin, Daniel, and Allie Beth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ron Simmons' Biography )〕Justin Simmons is a Dallas-area businessman; Daniel Simmons works with his father at RRA; Allie Beth Simmons has been a college student at the private Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.〔 Simmons is a teacher in Bible Fellowship at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, of which he was a church director from 2007 to 2009. He is a former deacon at First Baptist Church of Dallas. He is a supporter of the Liberty Institute, which seeks to protect the sanctity of human life, religious liberty, and traditional marriage. He is a national board member of the Autism Society of America and a life member of the National Rifle Association.〔 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「Ron Simmons (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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