Alan Steelman
| Alan Steelman | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 5th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Earle Cabell |
| Succeeded by | Jim Mattox |
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March 15, 1942 Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Seligman Fuller |
| Alma mater |
Baylor University Southern Methodist University |
Alan Watson Steelman (born March 15, 1942) is a Dallas businessman who was a Republican congressman from Texas between 1973 and 1977; at the time of his election, he was the youngest sitting member of Congress. He gave up his Fifth Congressional District seat to challenge Democratic incumbent Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., in the 1976 U.S. Senate general election.
Steelman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, on a baseball scholarship. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1964 and was president of his class. He received an MLA degree in 1971 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
In 1972, Steelman was a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1969 to 1972, he was a member of President Richard M. Nixon's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise, when he was elected to Congress. Steelman unseated incumbent Democratic Congressman Earle Cabell, a former mayor of Dallas who had served since 1965, when he unseated in November 1964 the Republican incumbent Bruce Alger. Steelman polled 74,932 votes (55.7 percent) to Cabell's 59,601 (44.3 percent). His campaign manager was the later Texas Republican state chairman Fred Meyer, a Dallas businessman originally from suburban Chicago.
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