Randy Neugebauer

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Randy Neugebauer (2011)

Charles Randolph "Randy" Neugebauer (* 24. December 1949 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American politician of the Republican . From 2003 to 2017 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Randy Neugebauer attended Coronado High School in Lubbock until 1968 . He then studied at Texas Tech University there until he graduated in 1972 . He then worked in the finance and real estate industry and as a developer for agricultural land.

The Baptist Neugebauer has two sons with his wife Dana, with whom he has been married since 1971 .

Political career

While working in the private sector, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1992 and 1998 he was a member of Lubbock City Council. He was acting mayor from 1994 to 1996.

After the resignation of Congressman Larry Combest , Neugebauer stood in the due extraordinary by-election in May 2003 for his 19th seat in Texas in the House of Representatives and received the most votes, but not an absolute majority, which is why he only opposed himself in the second round in June 2003 his competitor Mike Conaway prevailed. He was thus elected Combest's successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on June 5, 2003. After the loss of his previous seat by reallocating the congressional electoral districts ("Redistricting"), he stood in the 2004 election against Charles Stenholm , a conservative southern Democrat of Solid South . Even if Stenholm had been the electorate in his constituency since 1977 , he was considered one of the most threatened democratic elected officials after the 2000 election , which he narrowly won with 52 percent of the vote; In addition, 58 percent of the congressional constituency was formed from Neugebauer's previous seat and only 31 percent from Stenholms, which led to structural Republican dominance: In the presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 , the Republicans in this area had around 64 percent, George W. Bush in the In 2000 even 75 percent of the vote was achieved. Neugebauer won the hard-fought race with 59.3 to 40.7 percent of the vote. Since then, he has won re-elections without difficulty.

In Congress , Neugebauer is a member of the Agriculture Committee , the Finance Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee . Neugebauer also sits on six subcommittees, including as chairman of the subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit , where he was instrumental in restructuring American public real estate finance after the subprime crisis . In the Republican primary for the US presidential election 2016 , he supported his political companion, the Tea Party movement- supported Texan US Senator Ted Cruz ; Neugebauer's son Toby was one of the major donors of a super PAC close to Cruz . Randy Neugebauer was considered one of the most conservative congressmen and was a member of both the Tea Party Caucus and the Republican Study Committee .

In September 2015, Neugebauer announced not to apply again in the November 2016 election to the House of Representatives and gave family reasons. He resigned from Congress on January 3, 2017; he was succeeded by the Republican Jodey Arrington .

literature

  • Randy Neugebauer. In: Ben R. Guttery: Representing Texas. A Comprehensive History of US and Confederate Senators and Representatives from Texas. BookSurge Publishing, North Charleston, SC 2008, ISBN 1-4196-7884-1 , p. 113.

Web links

Commons : Randy Neugebauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Randy Neugebauer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Randy Neugebauer. In: Ben R. Guttery: Representing Texas. A Comprehensive History of US and Confederate Senators and Representatives from Texas. BookSurge Publishing, North Charleston, SC 2008, ISBN 1-4196-7884-1 , p. 113.
  2. ^ Seth C. McKee, Daron R. Shaw: Redistricting in Texas. In: Peter F. Galderisi (Ed.): Redistricting in the New Millennium. Lexington Books, Lanham MD 2005, pp. 275-310, here p. 298.
  3. ^ Seth C. McKee: Republican Ascendancy in Southern US House Elections. Westview Press, Boulder CO 2010, Chapter A Case Study of Texas 19 in the 2004 US House Election. Pp. 100–108 (preview) . See p. 105 for the result, p. 103 for a map of the congressional constituency, and p. 104 for the specifics of the ethnic makeup of the electorate.
  4. ↑ a b Texas GOP Rep. Randy Neugebauer Announces Retirement. In: Salon.com . September 17, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ Ben Lane: Rep. Randy Neugebauer, Champion of Housing Finance Reform, to Retire from Congress. In: HousingWire.com. September 18, 2015 (English).
  6. ↑ Theodore Schleifer: Inside the Abandoned Plans of Ted Cruz's Super PACs. In: CNN.com. November 8, 2015 (English); Maria Recio: Texas billionaire offers incentive for Trump to debate Cruz. In: Star-Telegram. January 28, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Neugebauer, Randy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neugebauer, Charles Randolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri