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| Source: Republican Party of Texas. (full source, footnotes 1, 2, 3, and 4) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full Source:
Adapted from the Republican Party of Texas website,
http://www.texasgop.org/library/RPT-GrowthChart.pdf. Accessed 12 June 2004.
Full Footnotes: 1. Statewide elected offices today include governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, agriculture commissioner, land commissioner, railroad commissioners (3), and justices of both the Supreme Court (9), and the Court of Criminal Appeals (9). As of 1996 the office of state treasurer was abolished and its duties transferred to the comptroller.
2. Texas had 24 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 1970 reapportionment, 27 seats during the 1980s, 30 seats during the 1990s, and 32 seats following the 2000 reapportionment.
3. County and district officials, most of them elected, include county judges, county commissioners, county attorneys, sheriffs, district and county clerks, justices of the peace, constables, tax assessor collectors, county treasurers, and county auditors. Other positions include district court judges and officials of special districts such as school, water, and hospital districts as well as transit and housing authorities. These overlap geographically and sometimes jurisdictionally with county officials.
4. The State Board of Education, which had grown to 27 elected members by the early 1980s, was temporarily replaced with a 15 member appointed board from 1984 to 1987, then in 1988 converted back to an elected board with 15 members. See the Texas Public Schools Sesquicentennial Handbook, 1854-2004 online at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/comm/tps_handbook04/index.html accessed 14 June 2004.
Full Footnotes: 1. Statewide elected offices today include governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, agriculture commissioner, land commissioner, railroad commissioners (3), and justices of both the Supreme Court (9), and the Court of Criminal Appeals (9). As of 1996 the office of state treasurer was abolished and its duties transferred to the comptroller.
2. Texas had 24 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 1970 reapportionment, 27 seats during the 1980s, 30 seats during the 1990s, and 32 seats following the 2000 reapportionment.
3. County and district officials, most of them elected, include county judges, county commissioners, county attorneys, sheriffs, district and county clerks, justices of the peace, constables, tax assessor collectors, county treasurers, and county auditors. Other positions include district court judges and officials of special districts such as school, water, and hospital districts as well as transit and housing authorities. These overlap geographically and sometimes jurisdictionally with county officials.
4. The State Board of Education, which had grown to 27 elected members by the early 1980s, was temporarily replaced with a 15 member appointed board from 1984 to 1987, then in 1988 converted back to an elected board with 15 members. See the Texas Public Schools Sesquicentennial Handbook, 1854-2004 online at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/comm/tps_handbook04/index.html accessed 14 June 2004.