J. Allen Carnes
| Mayor of Uvalde, Texas, USA | |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Cody L. Smith |
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| Born | 1975 Place of birth missing |
| Political party | Unsuccessful primary candidate in 2014 for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture |
| Spouse(s) | Brooke Milam Carnes |
| Children | Three children |
| Residence | Uvalde, Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Texas |
| Occupation | Farmer and businessman |
| Religion | United Methodist Church |
Jay Allen Carnes, known as J. Allen Carnes (born 1975), is a farmer who has been since 2012 the mayor of Uvalde, Texas. On March 4, 2014, he was an unsuccessful Republican primary candidate for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture.
Carnes was reared on a ranch in Uvalde County. He graduated in 1997 with a degree in Finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his election as mayor, a nonpartisan position in Texas, he served from 2008 to 2012 on the Uvalde City Council. He has served on numerous Texas agriculture boards and commissions, including the Texas International Produce Association and the Texas Vegetable Association.
Carnes' grandfather started tilling the soil about Uvalde in 1950. Now Allen Carnes is the principal owner and manager of Winter Garden Produce, located on the north side of Uvalde. The company ships crops throughout the nation. Carnes farms vegetables, grain, and cotton. The Carnes family owns more than 3,500 acres of farmland. Carnes himself manages more than 1,000 acres and holds majority interest in the cotton gin. Like the state as a whole, Winter Garden Produce has struggled in recent years with drought, a matter which particularly concerns Carnes.He is affiliated with the South Texans' Property Rights Association, the Texas Farm Bureau and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
Carnes and his wife, the former Brooke C. Milam (born c. 1976), have three children. He is finance chairman of the First United Methodist Church in Uvalde. He is a coach for Uvalde Youth Sports.
Carnes began his campaign for agriculture commissioner with $89,000, the smallest amount of all five Republican candidates who sought the position. Carnes's opponents challenged his actual commitment to the Republican Party. Carnes voted in the Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010, as well as 2000, although he disputes that contention. He said that he backed Democrats in local races for sheriff and county judge in which no Republican was seeking those offices in Uvalde County. Carnes said that his backing for these Democrats and political contributions to other Democrats was tied directly to agriculture issues. Nevertheless, Carnes considers himself a "lifelong Republican" who as a 17-year-old volunteered in the unsuccessful 1992 campaign to reelect U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush: "It killed me when he got beat by Clinton, and I couldn't vote."
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