Kenny Marchant

Kenny Marchant

Kenny Marchant (* 23. February 1951 in Bonham , Texas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He has represented Texas’s 24th Congressional District since 2005 .

Family, education and work

Marchant was born in Bonham, Fannin County in 1951. He studied at South Nazarene University in Bethany , Oklahoma , where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1974. From 1975 to 1976 Marchant attended Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City , Missouri . He became an entrepreneur in the construction sector.

Marchant is married and has three sons and a daughter.

Political career

From 1980 he was a member of the Carrollton City Council and was elected Mayor of the city in 1984. He held this office until 1987, when he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives and was a member of parliament from 1987 to 2004.

In the 2004 election , Marchant was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 24th Congressional District of the state of Texas , where he took office on January 3, 2005. He was confirmed in all subsequent elections in this constituency, which includes the suburbs of Fort Worth and Dallas , most recently in 2018 . In this half-time election of Donald Trump's presidency , however, he only prevailed with a lead of just under three percentage points against the Democrat Jan McDowell, after he had previously achieved clearer victories. In early August 2019, Marchant announced that he would not run again in the upcoming 2020 election . Marchant was the fourth Texas Republican in a matter of weeks to refrain from re-running for the US House of Representatives in 2020. His mandate ends with the 116th Congress on January 3, 2021.

He is or was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor as well as four sub-committees. He is also a founding member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus . Previously, Marchant served on the Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform .

Web links

• Kenny Marchant in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the Congress (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Adam Willis, Abby Livingston, Patrick Svitek: US Rep. Kenny Marchant will not seek reelection, marking the fourth recent GOP retirement in Texas. In: The Texas Tribune , August 4, 2019.