Lloyd Doggett

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Lloyd Doggett

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 25th district
In office 1995 - present
Preceded by	Chris Bell
Succeeded by	Incumbent

Born	October 06, 1946 (age 60) Austin, Texas
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Libby Doggett, Ph.D.
Religion	Methodist

Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946), American politician, is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district based in the state capital, Austin, since 1995. It is currently numbered as the 25th Congressional district but was numbered as the 10th Congressional district from 1995 to 2005.

Born in Austin, Doggett received both his bachelor's degree in business and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas at Austin where he served as student body president his senior year. His political career began in 1973, when he was elected to the Texas State Senate, serving until 1985. He first gained noteriety in 1979, as a member of the "Killer Bees"--a group of 12 Democratic state senators who opposed a plan to move the state's presidential primary to March 11. The intent was to give former governor John Connally a leg up on the 1980 Republican nomination. The Killer Bees wanted a closed primary. When this proposal was rejected, they walked out of the chamber and left the Senate two members short of a quorum. The bill was withdrawn five days later.

In 1984 he lost the US Senate election to Phil Gramm by a margin of 59%-41%. Later, in 1989 he became both a justice on the Texas Supreme Court and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, his alma mater.

He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1994. Running for re-election in 1996, Congressman Doggett defeated a peculiar challenger in Republican Teresa Doggett, to whom he is no relation. It marked the second election in a row in which he defeated a black female Republican. In the years following his first re-election, Doggett would consistently win around 85% of the vote, facing only Libertarian opponents.

Redistricting by the Texas Legislature in 2003 split Austin, which had been located almost entirely in the 10th District for more than a century, among three districts. The 10th, which had once been represented by Lyndon Johnson, had long been a liberal Democratic bastion in increasingly Republican Texas. Doggett's home wound up in a new, heavily Republican 10th District stretching from north central Austin to the Houston suburbs. Most of Doggett's former territory wound up on the 25th District, which consisted of a long tendril stretching from Austin to McAllen on the Mexican border. Doggett was handily reelected in this heavily Democratic, majority-Latino district.

On June 28, 2006, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Texas Legislature had violated the rights of Latino voters when it moved most of Laredo out of the neighboring 23rd District and replaced it with several heavily Republican San Antonio suburbs. It also ruled that the 25th District was not compact enough to be a replacement. The 25th was derisively called "the fajita strip" by Texas Democrats because of its shape. The ruling forced the redrawing of five districts between El Paso and San Antonio, including the 25th. For the 2006 election, Doggett regained most of his old base in Austin, and also picked up several suburbs southeast of the city. He was handilly reelected.

He is a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, where he serves on the Health Subcommittee, and the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee.

He defeated Grant Rostig and Brian Parrett in 2006.

Year	Office	Election	Subject	Party	Votes	%	Opponent	Party	Votes	%	Opponent	Party	Votes	%
1994	Congress, 10th district	General	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	113,738	56.31	Jo Baylor	Republican	80,382	39.22	Other		7,866	3.89
1996	Congress, 10th district	General	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	132,066	56.20	Teresa Doggett	Republican	97,204	41.36	Other		5,721	2.43
1998	Congress, 10th district	General	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	116,127	85.21	Vincent J. May	Libertarian	20,155	14.79
2000	Congress, 10th district	General	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	203,628	84.55	Michael Davis	Libertarian	37,203	15.45
2002	Congress, 10th district	General	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	114,428	84.37	Michele Messina	Libertarian	21,196	15.63
2004	Congress, 25th district	General	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	108,309	67.60	Rebecca Klein	Republican	49,252	30.74	James Werner	Libertarian	2,656	1.66

U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett official House site
Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Federal Election Commission - Mr. Lloyd A Doggett campaign finance reports and data
On the Issues - Lloyd Doggett issue positions and quotes
OpenSecrets.org - Lloyd Doggett campaign contributions
Project Vote Smart - Representative Lloyd A. Doggett (TX) profile
SourceWatch Congresspedia - Lloyd Doggett profile
Washington Post - Congress Votes Database: Lloyd Doggett voting record

Preceded by Charles F. Herring	Texas State Senator from District 14 (Austin) 1973–1985	Succeeded by Gonzalo Barrientos
Preceded by Ted Robertson	Texas Supreme Court Justice, Place 2 1989–1994	Succeeded by Priscilla R. Owen
Preceded by J.J. Pickle	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 10th congressional district 1995–2005	Succeeded by Michael McCaul
Preceded by Chris Bell	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 25th congressional district 2005 – present	Incumbent