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Glenn Allen Hegar Jr. (born November 25, 1970) [1] [2] is an American attorney who serves as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.He was a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 18th District, west of Houston. [3]
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
The lieutenant governor is also a member of the Legislative Redistricting Board (together with the speaker of the House, attorney general, comptroller, and land commissioner), which is charged with adopting a redistricting plan for the Texas House of Representatives, Texas Senate, or U.S. House of Representatives after the decennial census if ...
The Bob Bullock Sports Center at Hill College in his native Hillsboro, Texas, opened in 1988, when Bullock was still the Texas state comptroller. Robert Douglas Bullock (July 10, 1929 – June 18, 1999) was an American Democratic politician from Texas , whose career spanned four decades .
The son of an oil field worker and a school teacher, Sharp grew up in the small farming community of Placedo, Texas.In 1972, Sharp earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Texas A&M University in College Station, where he was a member of Squadron 6 in the Corps of Cadets and was elected class president his sophomore year, and eventually Student Body President. [1]
Official Texas Tuition Promise Fund website; February 19, 2007 Daily Texan article: Tomorrow Fund in up to $3.3 billion hole [permanent dead link] May 18, 2007 Dallas Morning News article: Senate OKs scaled-down Texas Tomorrow Fund; September 10, 2008 press release: Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Introduces the Texas Tuition Promise Fund For ...
It was damaged in Tropical Storm Allison in 2001; [5] the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts stated that the 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m 2) facility was destroyed as a result of the flood. [14] Langstead Elementary, which had been constructed in 1968, was used as a temporary administration building.
The word is a variant of "controller". The "cont-" or "count-" part in that word was associated with "compt-", a variant of the verb "count". The term, though criticized by lexicographers such as Henry Watson Fowler, [1] is probably retained in part because in official titles it was deemed useful to have the title dissociated from the word and concept "control".