Barry Williamson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Barry Williamson

American politician

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1957

Place of Birth: Arkansas, United States

Profession: lawyer, businessperson

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Barry Williamson

  • Barry Ashlin Williamson (born June 19, 1957) is an attorney from Austin, Texas, who was from 1992 to 1999 a Republican member of the Texas Railroad Commission.
  • In 1992, he defeated the appointed incumbent Lena Guerrero, a Democrat, to win a seat on the three-member panel which regulates oil and natural gas operations (not railroads).Williamson is the son of the former Alice Wicker, a native of Steele, Missouri, and Ashlin "Tunney" Williamson (1926–2011), a farmer and school board member who was born in Blytheville, Arkansas, but reared in Missouri.
  • Barry Williamson himself was reared in Snow Lake in Desha County and in Elaine in Phillips County, both located along the Mississippi River in eastern Arkansas.
  • Williamson and his wife, the former Holly Holt, have two sons, Holt Williamson and Ashlin Williamson.
  • Williamson has three sisters, Jan W.
  • Dunkerson of Rose Bud, Arkansas, Karen W.
  • Tepovich of Houston, Texas, and Alecia W.
  • Lybrand of Soldonta, Alaska.
  • A brother, Tracy Williamson, is deceased.Williamson did not seek a second term on the Railroad Commission in 1998, but he instead ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general.
  • He lost a runoff election to John Cornyn.
  • A third candidate eliminated in the primary was Tom Pauken, the former state party chairman.
  • Cornyn then defeated the Democratic former attorney general Jim Mattox in the 1998 general election. In 2010, Williamson served as campaign chairman for Republican Railroad Commission nominee David J.
  • Porter, a Certified Public Accountant from Midland and Giddings, who upset incumbent Victor G.
  • Carrillo of Abilene, Texas, in the party primary.
  • Porter then defeated the Democrat Jeff Weems in the general election held on November 2, 2010.
  • Williamson formerly resided in Midland and Dallas, Texas.

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