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incumbent amarillo , texas 150px republican american texas hartley , oldham , deaf smith , potter , and state randall counties -rrb- representative from district 86 -lrb- dallam , robert dwight `` bob '' simpson 07 september 1951 january 1985 becky lynn smithee john t. smithee
 john true smithee attorney west texas a & m university
john t. smithee

john true smithee -lrb- born september 7 , 1951 -rrb- is an amarillo attorney who has been the republican member of the texas house of representatives from district 86 in the texas panhandle since january 1985 .
although smithee succeeded a democrat , robert dwight `` bob '' simpson -lrb- born 1943 -rrb- , who had served for a decade , district 86 is now considered the most republican state house jurisdiction in the entire state .
voters there cast more than 83 percent of their ballots for mitt romney in his 2012 race against the democrat u.s. president barack h. obama .
district 86 includes rural dallam , hartley , oldham , and deaf smith counties .
smithee 's district office is in amarillo .
he represents that part of amarillo , some 40 percent of the population , located to the south of the central city within randall county .
the remainder of amarillo , the seat of potter county , is represented by smithee 's republican colleague , four price , a lawyer from amarillo .
smithee is chairman of the house insurance committee and serves on the higher education committee .
smithee was first elected to the texas house in 1984 , when he was thirty-three .
he was reelected to his twelfth two-year term in 2006 with 86.5 percent of the vote over a libertarian party opponent .
democrats rarely contest the district any more .
he received a bachelor of business administration degree from west texas a&m university -lrb- then west texas state university -rrb- in canyon , the seat of randall county , and his juris doctor from texas tech university in lubbock .
he is married to becky lynn smithee -lrb- born january 7 , 1956 -rrb- .
