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Preceded by
  
New district

Name
  
Ray Hutchison

Battles and wars
  
Korean War

Residence
  
Dallas, Texas

Succeeded by
  
Ray Barnhart

Political party
  
Republican

Party
  
Republican Party

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Attorney



Born
  
September 16, 1932 (
1932-09-16
)

Resting place
  
Texas State Cemetery in Austin

Children
  
Including: Two adopted children from second marriage

Died
  
March 30, 2014, Dallas, Texas, United States

Spouse
  
Kay Bailey Hutchison (m. 1978)

Education
  
Southern Methodist University

Elton Ray Hutchison, known as Ray Hutchison (September 16, 1932 – March 30, 2014), was an attorney in Dallas, Texas, who served as a Republican in the Texas House of Representatives from District 33-Q in Dallas County from 1973 to 1977 and as the chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1976 to 1977. He was the second husband of Republican former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.

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In 1957, Hutchison graduated with honors from Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas. In 1959, he obtained his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the same institution.

Hutchison was senior counsel with the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. His principal area of practice was public finance.

The 1978 gubernatorial primary

In 1976, Hutchison became chairman of the Texas Republican Party, but he left the nonsalaried position in 1977 to pursue his gubernatorial campaign. In the spring of 1978, he lost his party's nomination to Bill Clements, an industrialist also from Dallas, by a lopsided vote of 115,345 72.8 percent to 38,268, 24.2 percent. Another 4,790 votes or 3 percent went to Charles Thompson. Clements went on to win narrowly the general election by defeating the Democrat John Luke Hill and hence became the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction.

Personal life

Hutchison met his wife, then known as Kay Bailey, when both were state legislators, he from Dallas and she from Houston. Hutchison resided with his wife in Dallas. They adopted two infant children in 2001, a son and a daughter. Both Hutchisons had been previously married. Ray Hutchison has grown children from his first marriage. The couple also owned a home in Nacogdoches, Texas. Hutchison died on March 30, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.

References

Ray Hutchison Wikipedia