Leo Berman (October 21, 1935 – May 23, 2015) was an American
businessman, military officer, and politician from
Tyler Tyler may refer to:
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,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
, who was a
Republican
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member of the
Texas House of Representatives
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for District 6 in
Smith County from 1999 to 2013. He was first elected in the
general election held in November 1998. In January 2011, Berman announced a challenge to
Speaker
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Joe Straus
Joseph Richard Straus III (born September 1, 1959) is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019. A Republican, he represented District 121, which comprises northeastern Bexar County ...
of
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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for the presiding officer's position but subsequently withdrew from the race. Though Representative
Warren Chisum of
Pampa filed his candidacy for Speaker, Straus was handily reelected to a second term in the leadership in January 2011.
References
External links
Representative Leo Berman''official Texas House of Representatives site''
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2015 deaths
1935 births
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