Andrew Stevenson Murr | |
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Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 53 district |
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Assumed office January 13, 2015 |
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Preceded by | Harvey Hilderbran |
County Judge of Kimble County, Texas | |
In office January 1, 2009 – September 30, 2013 |
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Succeeded by | Delbert R. Roberts |
Personal details | |
Born |
Junction, Kimble County Texas, USA |
April 23, 1977
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Lacey Braswell Murr (married 2003) |
Relations | Coke R. Stevenson (grandfather) |
Children | Coke Murr |
Parents |
Hardy G. Murr |
Residence | Kimble County, Texas |
Alma mater |
Junction High School |
Occupation | Lawyer; Businessman; Rancher |
Religion | Episcopalian |
Hardy G. Murr
Junction High School
Texas A&M University
Andrew Stevenson Murr (born April 23, 1977) is a lawyer, businessman and rancher in Junction, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 53, which encompasses his native Kimble County and eleven other West Texas counties: Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Llano, Mason, Medina, Menard, Real, Schleicher, and Sutton.
An eighth-generation Texan, Murr is a maternal grandson of former Governor Coke R. Stevenson, who died in 1975, two years before Murr was born. Murr graduated from Junction High School and Texas A&M University in College Station, with a degree in education. While at Texas A&M, he worked in Washington D.C. on agricultural and natural resource policy matters, and in Austin as an assistant committee clerk for the Texas House Natural Resources Committee. He subsequently received a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock.