Chet Edwards (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Texas (17)
- Birth Date: Nov. 24, 1951
- Occupation: Marketing Representative
- Religion: Methodist
- Web site: http://www.chetedwards.com
Education
- Harvard University, MBA
- Texas A&M University, BA
Chet Edwards was born in Corpus Christi and lives in Waco. He received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1974 from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard in 1981.
He was an aide to then-U.S. Rep. Olin Teague in 1974. Edwards worked as a marketing representative for the Trammell Crow Co. He was elected to the state Senate in 1982 and was re-elected in 1986.
He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1990.
He is married to Lea Ann Edwards and has two children.
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