John T. Smithee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

John T. Smithee

American politician and lawyer

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Amarillo, Texas, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About John T. Smithee

  • John True Smithee (born September 7, 1951) is an Amarillo attorney who has been since January 1985 a long-term Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 86 in the Texas Panhandle. 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 Republican Mitt Romney in his 2012 race against Democrat Barack H.
  • Obama.District 86 includes rural Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, and Deaf Smith counties.
  • With his district office in Amarillo, Smithee represents some 40 percent of the Amarillo population, located to the south of the central city within adjacent Randall County.
  • The remainder of Amarillo, the county seat of Potter County, is represented by Smithee's Republican colleague, Four Price, also an Amarillo lawyer. 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).

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