Charles F. Howard
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| Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 26th district |
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In office 1995-present |
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| Preceded by | Jim Tallas |
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| Born | May 30, 1942 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Jo Howard |
| Profession | Real Estate Development |
Charles F. Howard, known more commonly as Charlie Howard, is an American politician and has been a member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1995. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Howard is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), serving as Texas state leader.
After moving to Sugar Land, Texas, a fast-growing suburb of Houston at the time, Charlie Howard became involved in the Sugar Land community, at one time serving as President of the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce, which is highly influential in Fort Bend County and also of which he is a life member. He is also a founding director of the Fort Bend Economic Development Council and has served as President of The C. Howard Company, which specializes in real estate development. Prior experience included serving as Executive Vice President and Operating Officer of Sugarland Properties, which developed the First Colony master-planned community that now comprises most of the southern and southeastern areas of both Sugar Land and State House District 26. Additionally, Howard has been involved in numerous charitable, political, business, religious and educational organizations.
In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress. Howard made an issue of Tallas' resistance to term limits, which was exhibited when the latter (as chair of a subcommittee) struck down a measure calling for term limits in the Texas Legislature. [1] Using this issue as the centerpiece of his campaign, Howard defeated Tallas with 71 percent of the vote in the primary, which was considered the real contest in the heavily Republican district, which has not elected a Democrat since 1978. In fact, Howard has faced a Democratic challenger only once, in 2000, winning with 70% of the vote, and has, with the exception of 1996 (when he faced only a token third party candidate), won without opposition in other previous general election cycles.
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