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Kay Bailey Hutchison (born Kathryn Ann Bailey; July 22, 1943) is an American attorney, television correspondent, politician, diplomat, and was the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she was a United States Senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013. Born in Galveston, Texas, Hutchison is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to entering politics, she was an attorney and legal correspondent at KPRC-TV in Houston. She was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976. After a brief business career, she returned to politics in 1990, when she was elected Texas State Treasurer. In 1993, she was elected to the United States Senate in a non-partisan special election, defeating Democratic incumbent Bob Krueger and becoming the first female senator in Texas history. After being re-elected to the Senate in 1994, 2000, and 2006, Hutchison was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Texas in 2010, losing the Republican primary to incumbent Rick Perry. Hutchison was the most senior female Republican senator by the end of her tenure in 2013, and the fifth most senior female senator overall. In 2013, she joined the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani.The downtown Dallas convention center is named after her.On June 29, 2017, Hutchison was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next United States Permanent Representative to NATO. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a voice vote on August 3, 2017. Early life Hutchison was born Kathryn Ann Bailey in Galveston, the daughter of Kathryn Ella (née Sharp) and Allan Abner Bailey, Jr., an insurance agent. She has two brothers, Allan and Frank. Hutchison grew up in La Marque, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1962 (age 19). She was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority. She received her J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1967 (age 24). Following her graduation from law school, she was the legal and political correspondent for KPRC-TV in Houston. Hired by Ray Miller, host of the long-running The Eyes of Texas anthology series, Hutchison was among the first on-screen newswomen in Texas. Early career In 1972 (age 29), Hutchison was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from a district in Houston. She served until 1976. She was vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from 1976 to 1978. She was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1982 for the Dallas-based 3rd District, but was defeated in the primary by Steve Bartlett. She temporarily left politics and became a bank executive and businesswoman. United States Senate Caucus memberships Congressional Oil and Gas Caucus Congressional Internet Caucus International Conservation Caucus Senate Auto Caucus Sportsmen's CaucusElections 1993 Hutchison was elected Texas State Treasurer in 1990 and served until June 1993 when she ran against Senator Bob Krueger in a special election to complete the last two years of Lloyd Bentsen's term. Bentsen had resigned in January 1993 to become Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration. Krueger had been appointed by Texas Governor Ann Richards to fill the seat until a replacement was elected. A field of 24 candidates sought to fill Bentsen's unexpired term in the May 1993 special election. The top two vote-getters were Hutchison (593,338, or 29 percent) and Krueger (593,239, also 29 percent). During the campaign Krueger charged that Hutchison was a "country club Republican" and insensitive to the feelings of minorities. In January, the Houston Chronicle reported that both Hutchison and Fields had promised to serve a maximum of two six-year terms in the Senate as part of her support for term-limit legislation for members of Congress. In April, the Dallas Morning News reported that Hutchison had repeated her pledge to serve only two terms in the U.S. Senate, if elected, and had also said term limits ought to cover all senators, including Senator Phil Gramm (Republican), who had been elected in 1984 and re-elected in 1990. (He would stay in the Senate until 2002.) The term-limits legislation never passed, and Hutchison said that she would not leave the Senate in the absence of such legislation, because doing so unilaterally would hurt Texas at the expense of other states in the seniority-driven institution. After the initial voting, most of the Barton and Fields voters switched to Hutchison, who won the run-off, 1,188,716 (67.3 percent) to 576,538 (32.7 percent). Lower turnout in the run-off resulted in a decrease in Krueger's vote total, by 17,000. Hutchison became the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.Following Hutchison's election in 1993, Texas had two sitting Republican U.S. senators for the first time since Reconstruction, something that would remain through the end of Hutchison's tenure in the Senate. 1993 indictments and acquittal On June 10, 1993, Travis County authorities, led by Democratic District Attorney Ronnie Earle, raided Hutchison's offices at the State Treasury. The search was conducted without a warrant, as incident to service of the indictments in the case. In September 1993, Hutchison was indicted by a Texas grand jury for official misconduct and records tampering. Hutchison stated that she was the innocent victim of a politically motivated prosecutor. Earle denied that his legal actions against Hutchison were politically motivated. The case against Hutchison was heard before State District Judge John Onion in February 1994. During pre-trial proceedings, the judge did not rule on the admissibility of evidence obtained on June 10. Following the lack of a ruling, Earle declined to proceed with his case. Onion swore in a jury and directed the jury to acquit Hutchison, since Earle chose not to present evidence. The acquittal barred any future prosecution of Hutchison for the same alleged crime. 1994 election Running in 1994 for election to her first full term, Hutchison received 2,604,281 votes (60.8 percent) to 1,639,615 votes (38.3 percent) cast for Democrat Richard W. Fisher, the son-in-law of the late Republican Congressman James M. Collins, who had also run in the 1993 special election. 2000 In 2000 she defeated Democrat Gene Kelly, with 4,082,091 (65 percent) to 2,030,315 (32.2 percent). She carried 237 of the 254 counties, including one of the most Democratic counties, Webb County (Laredo). 2006 Speculation began in 2004 that Hutchison would run for Governor of Texas in 2006, challenging incumbent Governor Rick Perry in the Republican primary. However, on June 17, 2005, Hutchison announced that she would seek re-election to the Senate instead, reneging on an earlier promise to a two-term limit. Many political analysts speculated that she did not believe she could defeat Perry in the GOP primary because of his popularity among Christian conservatives, while her Senate.... Discover the Kathryn Meyer Griffith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kathryn Meyer Griffith books.

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    Witches

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Book 1. A good witch must fight and defeat an evil witch from another time. There are witches in the world…some are good and some of them are downright evil.Amanda Givens is carefu...

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    Too Close to the Edge

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going with her husband, sister and brotherinlaw to see the Grand Canyon…even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there...

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    All Things Slip Away

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    All Things Slip Away, sequel to Scraps of Paper and prequel to Ghosts Beneath Us and Witches Among Us. (The Spookie Town Mysteries Series).Can a crime and a cunning criminal return...

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    Scraps of Paper

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Abigail Sutton's beloved husband walks out one night, doesn't return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of a long ago crime. It's made her sympathetic to the missing and ...

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    When the Fireflies Returned

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Where the sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery was more Abby’s and Frank’s stories, their mysteries to deal with, solve and remain alive through; this seventh book is old Myrtle’s sto...

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    Evil Stalks the Night

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Twenty years ago psychic Sarah Summers fled from the evil that lurked in the woods behind her childhood home after it killed most of her family, but a nasty divorce and financial h...

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    The Banshee and the Witch

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    What would you do to live forever, stay young forever? To find true love again? And if you were a white witch with the magical powers to make it happen…and the secret of how t...

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    The Ice Bridge

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    She'll fall in love again…with a man and the island. Charlotte returns to her Aunt Bess and Mackinac Island, a quaint retreat that welcomes summer tourists and allows no cars, to r...

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    Witches

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    There are witches in the world…some are good and some of them are downright evil.Amanda Givens is careful how she uses her benevolent powers. She doesn't want the people of Canaan,...

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    Witches Among Us

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Spookie is a quaint village often cloaked in fog and filled with mysteries. The usual eccentric characters are here for their fourth murder mystery and the case is one which really...

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    Echoes of Other Times

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Frank and Abigail, and the town of Spookie, have survived the last horrific year and a half and are moving on with their lives. They're sending their two children, Laura and Nick, ...

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    When the Fireflies Returned

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Where the sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery was more Abby's and Frank's stories, their mysteries to deal with, solve and remain alive through; this seventh book is old Myrtle's sto...

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    Egyptian Heart

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Maggie Owen is a beautiful, spirited Egyptologist…but lonely. Even being in Egypt on a grant from the college she teaches at to search for an undiscovered necropolis she's certain ...

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    Too Close to the Edge

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going with her husband, sister and brotherinlaw to see the Grand Canyon…even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there...

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    Witches Among Us

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Spookie is a quaint village often cloaked in fog and filled with mysteries. The usual eccentric characters are here for their fourth murder mystery and the case is one which really...

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    Six Spooky Short Stories

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Six contemporary spooky short stories:GHOST BROTHER…So what happens after you die? Do you go to heaven, or hell? Or do you go to a special place fashioned just for you based on the...

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    The Ice Bridge

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    She’ll fall in love again…with a man and the island. Charlotte returns to her Aunt Bess and Mackinac Island, a quaint retreat that welcomes summer tourists and allows no cars to re...

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    What Lies Beneath the Graves

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    The 5th Spookie Town Murder Mystery is finally out.Who wouldn’t want to find a chest of buried treasure, ancient gold coins and exquisitely priceless jewelry, on their land? A trea...

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    Christmas Magic 1959 Short Memoir

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Have you ever wondered what a writer’s early years were like and how it affected their future writing and the stories they would tell later in their lives? Have you ever wondered w...

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    All Those Who Came Before

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    This sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery belongs primarily to Abigail and Frank Lester, my two main characters in the six book series. It's their turn. First off, it at long last sol...

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    Dinosaur Lake IV Dinosaur Wars

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    For seven long years Chief Park Ranger Henry Shore has been dealing with and fighting anachronistic dinosaurs in his beloved Crater Lake National Park and in the surrounding town o...

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    Scraps of Paper

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Scraps of PaperRevised Author’s Edition by Kathryn Meyer GriffithAbigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim o...

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    Ghosts Beneath Us

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    The third Spookie Town Murder Mystery. Are there really ghosts in Spookie town? Someone is terrorizing the elderly in a certain neighborhood in Spookie and vandalizing their homes....

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    Dinosaur Lake IV Dinosaur Wars

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    For seven long years Chief Park Ranger Henry Shore has been dealing with and fighting anachronistic dinosaurs in his beloved Crater Lake National Park and in the surrounding town o...

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    A Time of Demons and Angels

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Since Cassandra Graystone was a child and her family perished in a fire she knows and sees things other people don’t…when someone will die or that a demon lurks beneath a human ski...

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    Christmas Magic 1959

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Have you ever wondered what a writer's early years were like and how it affected their future writing and the stories they would tell later in their lives? Have you ever wondered w...

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    What Lies Beneath the Graves

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    The 5th Spookie Town Murder Mystery is finally out.Who wouldn't want to find a chest of buried treasure, ancient gold coins and exquisitely priceless jewelry, on their land? A trea...

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    Waiting Beyond The Veil

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    The eccentric, and sometimes lovable, characters of Spookie have returned for another series of mysterious adventures. Frank Lester, exChicago homicide detective and mystery author...

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    Dinosaur Lake

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer Griffith...first in a seven book series.Excop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his pa...

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    All Things Slip Away

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    All Things Slip Away,sequel to Scraps of Paper(The Spookie Town Mysteries Series) by Kathryn Meyer GriffithTen years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had ...

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    The Heart of the Rose

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Bronwyn is a kind and resourceful healer, ahead of her time, who cares for her aging father and two young sisters until her father is murdered by the king’s men and makes all three...

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    All Those Who Came Before

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    This sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery belongs primarily to Abigail and Frank Lester, my two main characters in the six book series. It’s their turn. First off, it at long last sol...

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    Dinosaur Lake

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer GriffithAn ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake…and it’s hungry.Excop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater L...