Ed Emmett
| Edward Martin "Ed" Emmett | |
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| Texas State Representative from District 78 (Houston) | |
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In office January 9, 1979 – January 11, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Joe Allen |
| Succeeded by | Steve Carriker |
| Texas State Representative from District 127 (Houston) | |
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In office January 11, 1983 – January 13, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Re-numbered and reorganized district |
| Succeeded by | Dan Shelley |
| County Judge of Harris County, Texas | |
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Assumed office March 6, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Eckels |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 14, 1949 Houston, Texas, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Gwendolyn O. Emmett |
| Children | Four children |
| Residence | Houston, Texas |
| Alma mater |
Bellaire High School |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Bellaire High School
Rice University
Edward Martin Emmett, known as Ed Emmett (born August 14, 1949), has been since 2007 the administrative county judge of Harris County, Texas. From 1979 to 1987, he was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, first from District 78 from 1979 to 1983 and then newly numbered District 127 from 1983 until 1987.
After a twenty-year hiatus from politics, he was elected as county judge to head the five-member Harris County Commissioners Court, based in Houston. Harris is the largest county by population in Texas.
Emmett graduated in 1967 from Bellaire High School. In 1971, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Rice University in Houston. In 1974, he earned his Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Emmett and his wife, Gwendolyn O. Emmett, have four children.
In 1978 at the age of twenty-nine, Emmett was elected to the first of his four terms in the state House. That year Bill Clements was elected as the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction, having narrowly defeated the Democrat John Luke Hill, a former attorney general and Texas Supreme Court justice. By the time Emmett left the House, Clements returned for his second non-consecutive term as governor when he waged a successful comeback against the man who had defeated him in 1982, then Attorney General Mark White. Since the late 20th century, conservative white voters have increasingly shifted from the Democratic Party into the Republican Party, supporting more candidates at the local and state as well as presidential level.
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