Facts: - imagesize: 220 - preceded: betty brown - party: republican - office: texas part of henderson counties -rrb- state representative from district 4 -lrb- kaufman and - term end: january 13 , 2015 - succeeded: stuart spitzer - term start: 2011 - birth date: 1 december 1982 - name: lance gooden - nationality: american - image: gooden new headshot.jpg - birth place: terrell , kaufman county texas , usa - alma mater: university of texas at austin - occupation: businessman Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lance gooden .
lance gooden -lrb- born december 1 , 1982 -rrb- is a departing two-term republican member of the texas house of representatives from district 4 -lrb- kaufman and a portion of henderson counties -rrb- .in the 2010 primary election , gooden narrowly upset the six-term incumbent republican representative betty brown , having polled 50.5 percent of the vote .gooden had formerly been brown 's legislative assistant .a native of terrell in kaufman county , a city east of dallas , texas , gooden graduated from the university of texas at austin , from which he received both a bachelor of arts in government and a bachelor of business administration .upon taking office early in 2011 , gooden worked on the state budget in an attempt to eliminate wasteful spending .he serves on these house committees : appropriations , county affairs , and house administration , the latter of which handles employment by the house .in 2010 , gooden had no democratic opponent in his heavily republican district .gooden won renomination to a second term in the republican primary held on may 29 , 2012 .he polled 6,385 votes -lrb- 53.5 percent -rrb- to 5,545 -lrb- 46.5 percent -rrb- for his opponent , stuart spitzer , a surgeon from kaufman , who was born and reared in athens in henderson county .gooden was then unopposed for his second term in the general election held on november 6 , 2012 .however , on march 4 , 2014 , dr. spitzer in a second bid for the office unseated gooden in the republican primary .spitzer polled 8,421 votes -lrb- 51 percent -rrb- to gooden 's 8,079 -lrb- 49 percent -rrb- .speaker joe straus of san antonio , made a campaign stop for gooden 's behalf in forney in kaufman county , a month before the primary election .accompanying straus to forney was state senator bob deuell , who lost his own seat in the subsequent may 27 runoff election to the tea party movement choice , bob hall .