Rick Noriega
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Richard Joel Noriega （born January 8, 1958） is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 145 in eastern Houston, first elected in 1998.
He was the 2008 Democratic nominee for the United States Senate against one-term Republican incumbent John Cornyn.
Noriega is also a retired major general in the Texas Army National Guard.
Noriega is a Mexican American and the father of two sons.
Noriega was born and raised in Houston.
After graduating from Mount Carmel High School he attended Alvin Community College on a Rusk Athletic Scholarship where he played baseball.
Noriega graduated from the University of Houston in 1984 with an ROTC Scholarship and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
He graduated from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1990.
He also earned a certificate in advanced international affairs from the George Bush School at Texas A&M University.
Noriega is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, where he completed his assignment as a fellow at the University of Texas.
Noriega joined the United States Army in 1979 in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis.
He became an officer in the Texas Army National Guard in 1984, and served in the Afghanistan War that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
On his return from Afghanistan, Mayor Bill White requested that Noriega command the evacuee shelter operation at the George Brown Convention Center in Houston, where he oversaw thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Noriega then command...