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Dade Phelan
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From District 21, which encompasses half of Jefferson County and all of neighboring Orange County in the far southeastern corner of the state. Phelan is a 1998 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He is a senior partner and broker at his family-owned Phelan Investments, a real estate development company.
He was a staff member for former District 4 State Senator Tommy Williams, United States. Representative Dick Armey of Texas"s 26th congressional district and District 21 State Representative Mark Stiles.
Governor Rick Perry twice named him to the Lower Neches Valley Authority. He was the board president in 2013.
He has served on the board of the historic Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont. Phelan succeeds former Democrat Allan Ritter, who was first elected in 1998 and switched to Republican affiliation late in his tenure in November 2010.
Ritter announced in October 2013 that he would not run for a ninth two-year term.
The district includes all of Orange County and the cities of Groves, Portuguese Neches, and Nederland, and part of Beaumont, all in Jefferson County. In the 2014 Republican primary, Phelan defeated Judy L. Nichols (born 1961), a businesswoman and the favorite of the Tea Party movement, 7,940 votes (599 percent) to 5,314 votes (401 percent). Phelan then handily prevailed over the Democrat Gavin Vance Bruney (born 1958) of Nederland, 74.4 to 25.6 percent, in the November 4 general election in which Republican candidates again swept all statewide elected offices.
In February 2015 Representative Phelan was appointed to the powerful Appropriations Committee, Appropriations Subcommittee on Education and the Elections Committee for the 84th Legislative Session.
Phelan faced no opposition in the 2016 primary or general election contests.
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