office parents term_start article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
chairman texas of the republican party in bexar county , roy barrera , sr. . 1992 roy barrera , jr. .
 2004 roy r. barrera , jr. . attorney st. mary 's university school of law
roy barrera , jr. .

roy r. barrera , jr. -lrb- january 25 , 1952 -rrb- , is a high profile attorney in san antonio , texas , who as the republican nominee nearly unseated attorney general jim mattox , a democrat , in the 1986 general election .
barrera is a 1975 graduate of st. mary 's university law school in san antonio .
he practices in the firm nicholas and barrera .
barrera is the son of roy barrera , sr. -lrb- born 1927 -rrb- , and the former maria del carmen zendejas -lrb- born 1924 -rrb- of san antonio .
the senior barrera served in 1968 as the texas secretary of state , under appointment of then governor john b. connally , jr. .
before the attorney general 's race , barrera , jr. , served as a state district court judge from 1982 to 1986 .
along with tom rickhoff , david peeples , and david berchelmann , barrera was the first republicans in bexar county elected to state court judgeships since reconstruction .
from 1992 to 2004 , barrera was the chairman of the bexar county republican party .
he was allied with former u.s. president george w. bush .
he had been a particularly effective fundraiser for the san antonio gop .
mattox only narrowly won a second term as attorney general .
though barrera is hispanic , a majority of hispanics voted for the anglo democrat mattox .
webb county -lrb- laredo -rrb- , for instance , one of the most hispanic and democratic enclaves in the state , supported mattox .
in 2007 , barrera endorsed francisco `` quico '' canseco , who sought the republican nomination to challenge 23rd district democratic u.s. representative ciro d. rodriguez of san antonio .
canseco lost the primary in 2008 to lyle larson , who was then defeated by the incumbent rodriguez .
in 2010 , however , canseco won the republican nomination and then narrowly unseated rodriguez in the general election .
he served only one term until his own defeat .
