succeeded children religion birth_place party nationality office preceded birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
scott turner four daughters , one son churches of christ nueces county , texas , usa republican american texas -rrb- state representative from district 33 -lrb- nueces county solomon ortiz , jr. . 6 february 1955 2011 corpus christi , texas gina torres raul torres -lrb- texas politician -rrb-
 2013 raul torres certified public accountant del mar college
raul torres -lrb- texas politician -rrb-

raul torres -lrb- born february 6 , 1955 -rrb- is a certified public accountant in corpus christi , texas , who represented district 33 in the texas house of representatives from 2011 to 2013 .
the republican torres lost his bid for the seat in 2008 but prevailed in the 2010 general election with 52.5 percent of the vote , when his party gained twenty-four seats across the state .
torres was an unsuccessful candidate for the republican nomination for texas comptroller of public accounts in the primary election held on march 4 , 2014 .
he finished last with 57,255 votes -lrb- 4.7 percent -rrb- .
the two top votegetters , state senator glenn hegar of katy and state representative harvey hilderbran of kerrville , were expected to meet in a runoff election on may 27 , 2014 , pending a change in hegar 's 49.99 percent primary tabulation .
however , hilderbrand , who finished with 26 percent of the ballots cast , announced on march 7 that he was ending his campaign and endorsed hegar as the republican nominee .
a fourth candidate in the race , debra medina , is an activist with the tea party movement and a long-time backer of ron paul for u.s. president .
