Given the question: Read the bio below and try to give details on tommy merritt 's: - state house - party - succeeded - birth date - profession - spouse - district - term end - name - birth place - state - alma mater - imagesize - residence - preceded - children - term start - image - religion Bio: thomas charles '' tommy '' merritt -lrb- born february 27 , 1948 -rrb- is a businessman from longview , texas and a republican former member of the texas house of representatives . merritt represented district 7 from january 1997 until january 2011 . in march 2010 , he lost the republican nomination to conservative-republican candidate david simpson . seeking another political comeback , merritt finished second in the march 4 , 2014 republican primary for the statewide position of texas commissioner of agriculture . he polled 248,568 -lrb- 21 percent -rrb- of the ballots cast . in the runoff election on may 27 , merritt was defeated by a former house colleague , sid miller of stephenville , 362,573 votes -lrb- 53.1 percent -rrb- to 320,434 -lrb- 46.9 percent -rrb- . in the primary , miller had also led merritt , 35 to 21 percent . the three eliminated candidates , eric opiela of karnes city , joe cotten of frisco , and mayor j. allen carnes of uvalde , held a combined 44 percent of the primary ballots , critical to the outcome of the runoff contest in which turnout dropped sharply .
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- state house is texas- party is republican- succeeded is david simpson- birth date is 27 february 1948- profession is businessman- spouse is janet merritt- district is 7th- term end is january 11 , 2011- name is thomas charles '' tommy '' merritt- birth place is kilgore , texas , usa- state is texas- alma mater is kilgore college- imagesize is 140 px- residence is longview , texas- preceded is jerry yost- children is missy , meredith , thomas- term start is january 14 , 1997- image is the honorable tommy merritt.jpg- religion is southern baptist