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Pete Sessions

Pete Sessions (22 March 1955-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-TX 5) from 3 January 1997 to 3 January 2003 (succeeding John Wiley Bryant and preceding Jeb Hensarling), from TX 32 from 3 January 2003 to 3 January 2019 (preceding Colin Allred), and from TX 17 from 3 January 2021 (succeeding Bill Flores).

Biography[]

Pete Sessions was born in Waco, Texas in 1955, the son of FBI director William S. Sessions, and he worked for Southwestern Bell for 16 years, becoming the district manager for marketing in Dallas. In 1996, he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican Party member, and he supported nearly all of his party's decisions (as well as those of Donald Trump). He was defeated for re-election by Democrat Colin Allred in 2018, but he returned to the US Congress amid a conservative resurgence in 2020.

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