John Wiley Bryant (born February 22, 1947) is an American politician who represented

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in the 98th to 104th U.S. Congress.

Early life and education

Bryant was born in Lake Jackson, Brazoria County, Texas. Following a B.A. at

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, Texas in 1969 Bryant studied law at Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he graduated in 1972. He was also admitted to the Texas bar in 1972. Bryant served as

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to a committee of the Texas senate in 1973.

Political career

Bryant was elected to Texas house of representatives in a special election in 1974 and was reelected from 1974 to 1982. He was elected as a Democrat to the 98th Congress in 1982 and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from 1983 to 1997. While in the United States House of Representatives Bryant was one of the

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who prosecuted the case in the impeachment trial of Judge

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. Hastings was found guilty by the

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and removed from his federal judgeship. In 1996 Bryant was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate election in Texas, 1996. Bryant would not reenter politics until 2021.

Post congressional career

In the mid-1990s he was one of the co-founders of the United Baseball League (UBL) which was a planned third major league. Bryant is a current student of Perkins School of Theology and taking a prayer and spirituality course as he pursues a discipline in Spiritual Discipline. In 2021, John Bryant filed to run for state representative in Texas's 114th district, after being out of politics for 24 years. Bryant declared, “I am so alarmed at the continued extremes to which the

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forces has gone in trying to take our country over and now this has arrived in Texas. I want to get off the sidelines and get back into the fight.” He won the primary in May 2022. He won the general election in November 2022.https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2022/11/leading-off-11-9-22/

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* 1947 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives Texas lawyers Southern Methodist University alumni People from Lake Jackson, Texas Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas {{Texas-politician-stub