John Ratcliffe (American politician)
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 4th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Ralph Hall |
| U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Texas | |
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In office February 2007 – July 2008 |
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| Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern District of Texas | |
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In office 2004–2007 |
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| Mayor of Heath, Texas | |
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In office May 2004 – May 2012 |
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John Lee Ratcliffe October 20, 1965 Mount Prospect, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Heath, Texas |
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University of Notre Dame (B.A.) Southern Methodist University (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | http://www.ratcliffe.house.gov |
John Lee Ratcliffe (born October 20, 1965) is an American politician who serves as the Congressman for Texas's 4th congressional district. The district stretches from the outer eastern suburbs of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to Texarkana, and includes Sherman, Bonham, Denison and Rockwall.
He defeated 17-term incumbent Ralph Hall, who was the oldest member of Congress at the time, in the runoff primary election on May 27, 2014. Ratcliffe was unopposed in the November 4, 2014 general election and was sworn in as a member of the 114th United States Congress on January 6, 2015. On November 8, 2016, Ratcliffe was re-elected to a second term in Congress after earning 88 percent of the vote over his lone opponent, the Libertarian Cody LaRue Wommack of Lone Star in Morris County. Ratcliffe's margin was hence one of the largest for a contested general election in the district's history.
In Heritage Action's final scorecard for the 114th Congress, Ratcliffe was ranked as the most conservative Texas legislator in Congress and second most conservative legislator in the country.
Ratcliffe was born in Mount Prospect, northwest of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, the youngest of six children. Both of his parents were teachers. In 1987, Ratcliffe graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and International Studies. He earned his Juris Doctor in 1989 from the Dedham School of Law at Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas.
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