Dan Morales
| Dan Morales | |
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| 48th Attorney General of Texas | |
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In office January 15, 1991 – January 13, 1999 |
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| Governor |
Ann Richards (1991–1995) George W. Bush (1995–1999) |
| Preceded by | Jim Mattox |
| Succeeded by | John Cornyn |
| Member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 124 San Antonio | |
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In office 1985–1991 |
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| Preceded by | Joe Hernandez |
| Succeeded by | Christine Hernandez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Daniel C. Morales April 24, 1956 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Christi Morales (1997–2003, divorced) |
| Children | 1 son |
| Residence | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Trinity University (B.A.) Harvard University (J.D.) |
| Profession | Lawyer and politician |
Daniel C. "Dan" Morales (born April 24, 1956) is an American politician. He served as the 48th Attorney General of Texas from January 15, 1991 through January 13, 1999, during the administrations of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. As Attorney General, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies.
He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the Hopwood v. Texas case, which ended all affirmative action in higher education in Texas until the United States Supreme Court reversed Hopwood in 2003. He is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio and Harvard Law School.
Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, Morales landed his first postgraduate job at the Houston corporate law firm Bracewell and Patterson in 1981 and the following year joined the Bexar County district attorney's office. After an eighteen-month stint of prosecuting minor drug cases, the 28-year-old Morales ran successfully for the Texas House of Representatives representing the 124th District of San Antonio and was re-elected in 1986 and 1988. Morales said during an interview with Texas Monthly in 1996, that while toiling as a Bexar County prosecutor, "the exposure to the system and seeing victims get the shaft impressed upon me that changes needed to be made." Those changes, Morales came to learn, were best addressed at the legislative level, so he felt compelled to run in 1984 against the incumbent legislator and defense attorney Joe Hernandez. The young candidate excoriated Hernandez for, as Morales put it, "abusing the legislative continuance statute to delay the trials of rapists, murderers, and drug dealers he was representing."[2]
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