Stephen C. Schlesinger is an American author, political commentator, and international affairs specialist.
 He is a Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City.
 He served as Director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University from 1997 to 2006.
 He was foreign policy advisor to New York State Governor Mario Cuomo during his three terms in office.
Terrance Arthur Tamminen (born March 7, 1952) is an author, lecturer, and strategist on energy and the environment.
 In 2003, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency.
 In December 2004, he was appointed Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor.
 He continues to advise the former governor, and other regional, national, and international leaders, on energy and environmental policy.
Danny Edward Sebright (born February 27, 1961) is the president of the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council, a Washington, D.C.-based business advocacy organization committed to fostering stronger trade and commercial ties between the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
 Sebright served at the Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency for nearly 20 years, most recently as a Policy Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense until 2002.
 Sebright has served on a number of political campaigns, most notably as Governor Howard Dean’s foreign policy advisor during his campaign for president.
 He has worked as a senior advisor in the Middle East practice group at The Cohen Group from 2002.
Joseph Eugene "Joe" Kernan (born April 8, 1946) is an American businessman and former politician who served as the 48th Governor of Indiana from 2003 to 2005.
 A member of the Democratic Party, Kernan previously served as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and then as the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1997 to 2003.
 He became governor on September 13, 2003, upon the death of Governor Frank O'Bannon.
 He lost an election to serve a full term as governor to former Office of Management and Budget director Mitch Daniels on November 2, 2004.
 Kernan returned to South Bend and retired from politics.
Stirling James Hinchliffe (born 23 November 1970) is an Australian politician.
 Born in Dalby, Queensland, he was educated at state schools and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland.
 He was a property industry analyst, policy manager, policy advisor and executive officer before his entry into politics.
 He had a long involvement with the Australian Labor Party, which included a position as National Secretary of Young Labor in 1995.
 In the 2006 Queensland state election, he was elected to the safe Labor seat of Stafford, which he represented until being defeated in the Queensland state election, 2012.
 Hinchliffe previously served as a cabinet minister in the Bligh Ministry
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.
 He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
 Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War.
 He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
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.
Michael Joseph Schofield, known as Mike Schofield (born 1969), is a former policy adviser to former Texas Governor Rick Perry and a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 132 in northwestern Harris County, Texas.
Leon Hadar, is a global affairs analyst, journalist, blogger and author.
 A long-time critic of American policy in the Middle East, and a former research fellow with the Cato Institute, Hadar is a contributing editor for "The American Conservative" and a contributor to National Interest, "Chronicles" and "Reason", a columnist for Haaretz and i24news and a blogger for the "Huffington Post".
 Hadar has published numerous analyses and commentaries on U.S. global diplomatic and trade policies, with a special focus on the Middle East and East and South Asia.
 Hadar is the author of two books on U.S. policy in the Middle East, "Quagmire: America in the Middle East" (Cato Institute, 1992), and "Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
 Hadar also served as a foreign policy advisor to the Ron Paul 2008 presidential camapaign.
 He has taught political science at University of Maryland College Park and is currently an Expert at Wikistrat.
Ben Scott is a Senior Advisor to the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin.
 Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy.
 In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he worked to help steward the 21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development.
 Prior to joining the State Department, for six years he led the Washington office for Free Press, a non-profit organization dealing exclusively with media and communications policy.
 As policy director for Free Press, he headed a team of lawyers, researchers, and advocates, and directed a public interest policy agenda to expand affordable access to an open Internet and to foster more public service journalism.
 He was frequently called as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress.
 Before joining Free Press, he worked as a legislative aide handling telecommunications policy for then-Rep.
 Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
 He holds a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois.
 Ben is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School.
 He is the author of several scholarly articles on American journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co-editor of two books.

Question: This American author and politician, with the policy advisor Mike Schofield, served as the 47th governor of what state?
Answer: Texas