Chad Raney (born 1970) is an American

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. He was the winner of the 1997 Texas Entrepreneur Award, presented to him by then Governor

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

for his

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company, CareChoice. He founded

Lone Star Music Lone Star Music, also called LSM, is a San Marcos, Texas-based music company which operates a website drawing half a million visitors a month,

in 1999 and sold it in 2009. Raney currently resides in his hometown of

Texarkana, Texas Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately from Dallas, Texarkana is a twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2020 census. ...

, where he works as a realtor and team leader for

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. He is active in his community, supporting efforts to revitalize Downtown Texarkana and is an active board member of MainStreet Texarkana. Raney helped form Songwriters On The Edge of Texas, a

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series to raise money for CASA of

Northeast Texas Northeast Texas is a cultural and geographic region in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Texas. Geographically centered on two metropolitan areas strung along Interstate 20—Tyler in the west and Longview/Marshall to the east, the areas ...

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21st-century American businesspeople 1970 births Living people People from Texarkana, Texas {{Texas-bio-stub