Education
He graduated with an engineering degree from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in College Station and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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He was chosen on the third secret ballot by the 62-member Republican State Executive Committee meeting in Austin on March 7, 2015, after the resignation of Steve Munisteri of Houston, who had been the chairman since 2010. The Grand Old Party holds all statewide offices in Texas. Mechler"s place of birth is not available.
He has formerly resided in connection with his employment in Wasilla, Alaska and in Texas: Kerens, San Antonio, Claude, Pampa, and Amarillo.
Woodfill was unseated as chairman in Harris County in 2014 by Paul Simpson. In 2010, Munisteri defeated Mechler at the party"s state convention in Dallas, and Melcher instead was named the party treasurer and was credited with bringing stability to party finances.
To retain the chairmanship, Mechler must be again elected in 2016 by delegates to the regular state Republican convention, which is held in May or June of every even year in various major cities across the state. Mechler has been the Republican chairmen in two Texas counties, one of which is Gray County, which includes Pampa, the second largest city in the Texas Panhandle.
To succeed himself as party treasurer, Mechler tapped Republican activist and assistant treasurer Thomas R. "Tom" Washington (born c 1956) of Denton.
In 2005, then Governor Rick Perry appointed Mechler to the board of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Governor Greg Abbott said that he expects Mechler to "strengthen the party continue the momentum of our state"s Republican victories and preserve the very values that have made Texas the greatest state in the nation to live, work and raise a family." Mechler opposes marriage of same-sex couples and once said he would cancel his subscription to his home-town newspaper, the Amarillo Globe-News, were it to place in its pages a picture of two men or two women kissing each other.
Politics
To win the state chairmanship, Mechler defeated several intraparty rivals, including former vice chairman and current Republican National Committeeman Robin Armstrong, an African American physician from Dickinson in Galveston County. Wade Emmert, the Dallas County party chairman, and Jared Woodfill, the former Harris County chairman known for his support of social conservatism.
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