page_title: Lloyd Doggett
section_title: U.S. House of Representatives
hierarchical_section_title: Lloyd Doggett / U.S. House of Representatives
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context_page_description: Lloyd Alton Doggett II is an American attorney and politician who is a U.S. Representative from Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented a district based in the state capital and his hometown, Austin, since 1995, currently numbered as Texas's 35th congressional district. Although Austin is heavily Democratic, it is split between multiple congressional districts, and Doggett is currently the only Democrat to represent any part of it in Congress.
  Doggett received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law.
  Doggett has held office as a legislator in the Texas State Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. He has also held office as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
context_section_description: Described as an "endangered species", Doggett was one of only three white male Democratic House members from Texas in the 113th Congress (the others being Gene Green and Beto O'Rourke) in a state with mostly Republicans and minority members of the Democratic Party. Following the retirements of Green and O'Rourke in the 2018 election, Doggett is the only white male Democrat representing Texas in Congress. He is one of the most liberal white Democrats from a Southern district, and one of the most liberal congressmen ever to represent Texas in Congress. His tax and environmental policies were described as "muscular progressivism" by David Hawkings of Roll Call.
  Doggett was a frequent critic of Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker, while allying with David Bonior, the Democratic Minority Whip, when Bonior was leading "an effort to diminish Gingrich's power by raising continual questions about his ethics." He has been a close ally of Nancy Pelosi. In 2002, he supported her successful bid for Party House leader over fellow Texan Martin Frost, a more moderate candidate.
  On the local level, Doggett helped ensure the development of the Austin Outpatient Clinic, which opened in 2011 as the largest veterans' clinic of its kind in the country. In 2014, he secured passage of legislation to expand the Missions National Park and supported it being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
caption: Doggett with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore at Netroots Nation 2008
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