James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American author and politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump.
 Prior to his cabinet position, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015.
 A Republican, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States.
 Perry was the longest-serving Governor in Texas history.
Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud (August 19, 1877 – October 17, 1950) was a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
 A native of Pointe Coupee Parish, Bouanchaud was elected a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1904.
 After an absence of one term, he was elected again in 1912 and 1916.
 In 1916, he was named Speaker of the Louisiana House.
 In 1920, he was elected lieutenant governor as the running mate to gubernatorial candidate John M. Parker, a Democrat formerly affiliated with the Progressive Party.
 Among Bouanchaud's opponents was state court Judge Philip H. Gilbert of Assumption Parish, who was subsequently the interim lieutenant governor from 1926 to 1928.
Wendell Hampton Ford (September 8, 1924 – January 22, 2015) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
 He served for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate and was the 53rd Governor of Kentucky.
 He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor and United States senator in Kentucky history.
 The Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999, he was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election to governor in 1971 until his retirement from the Senate in 1999.
 At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell in 2009.
John Marshall Hamilton (May 28, 1847 – September 22, 1905) was the 18th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1883 to 1885.
 Born in Union County, Ohio, Hamilton became interested in politics at a young age, joining the Wide Awakes when he was thirteen and the Union Army four years later.
 After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University he studied law and was admitted to the bar.
 A notable attorney in Bloomington, Illinois, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1876.
 He served there until 1881, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on a ticket with Shelby Moore Cullom.
 When Cullom resigned after election to the United States Senate, Hamilton became Governor of Illinois.
 He was not selected as a candidate for re-election, but did serve that year as a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention.
 He spent the rest of his life as an attorney in Chicago, where he died in 1905.
Anthony Gregory Brown (born November 21, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician, who is currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district.
 He previously served as the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015.
 He was elected as lieutenant governor in 2006 on the Democratic ticket with Governor Martin O’Malley, and both were reelected in 2010.
 In 2014 he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland, losing to Larry Hogan.
 Brown previously served two four-year terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Prince George's County.
 He is currently a Colonel in the United States Army Reserve, having served in the U.S. Army for nearly thirty years.
 While lieutenant governor, Brown was one of the two highest-ranking elected officials in the nation to have served a tour of duty in Iraq.
J. Emile Verret (September 13, 1885 – February 9, 1965) was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948, having served under the first of the two nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms of James Houston "Jimmie" Davis.
 Verret defeated former Governor Earl Kemp Long in the party's runoff election for the second-ranking office in state government.
 He and Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock of Franklin in St. Mary Parish both denied Long victory in races for lieutenant governor: Verret in 1944 and Aycock in 1959.
 Earl Long had been elected lieutenant governor in 1936 and succeeded to the governorship for a year in 1939.
 Long was defeated for a full gubernatorial term in 1940 but staged impressive comebacks to win the top office in 1948 and 1956.
William Pettus Hobby Jr. (born January 19, 1932) is an American Democratic politician who served a record eighteen years as the 37th Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
 He held that office from January 16, 1973 to January 15, 1991 for five unprecedented terms, he was the last lieutenant governor to serve a two-year term and the first elected to a four-year term when the Texas Constitution was amended to lengthen terms for statewide elected officeholders to four years beginning with the 1974 elections.
 The principal duty of the Texas lieutenant governor is to preside over the Texas State Senate.
Man of the House is a 2005 American crime comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and starring Tommy Lee Jones.
 The main plot revolves around Lt. Roland Sharp (portrayed by Jones), a lonesome Texas Ranger who goes undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach to protect a group of college cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder.
 Much of the film was shot in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas campus.
 Texas Governor Rick Perry has a cameo appearance in the film as himself.
 The house used in the film was The Star of Texas Inn.
Bethany A. Hall-Long (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party currently seving as the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, since January 2017.
 Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, Hall-Long served in the Delaware Senate from January 13, 2009 to January 17, 2017 representing District 10.
 Hall-Long had served in the Delaware General Assembly continuously from 2003 to 2017, in the Delaware House of Representatives until 2009.
 She was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware on November 8, 2016 and assumed office on January 17, 2017.
Butler Gilbert Noble (September 27, 1815 – October 25, 1890) was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin under Governor Alexander Randall.
 He was born in Geneva, New York.
 He moved to Wisconsin in 1850.
 He soon joined the Republican Party.
 He served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, from Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 1858, and was elected lieutenant governor at the end of the next year, a position in which he served from 1860 until 1862.
 In 1864, he moved to New York City, where he held jobs first as a weigher in the customs house, then as a harbor master, then as chief clerk in the seizure room.
 He died in 1890, from a stroke, in Brooklyn.

Question: In what year was the politician, who appeared in the 2005 American crime comedy film directed by Stephen Herek, elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas?
Answer: 1998