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About Mark M. Shelton
- 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.
- From 2009 to 2013, he represented House District 97 in Tarrant County.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 was her party's 2014 gubernatorial nominee against Republican Greg Abbott.
- Shelton ran again in 2014 for the same Senate seat but was 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).
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