Harvey Hilderbran
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Harvey Ray Hilderbran
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| state_house = Texas
| district = 53rd
| party = Republican
| term_start = January 1989
| term_end = January 13, 2015
| preceded = Gerald Geistweidt (then District 67)
| succeeded = Andrew Murr
| residence = Kerrville, Texas, U.S.
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|2|9}}
| death_date =
| birth_place = Uvalde, Texas, U.S.
| children = 2
| alma_mater = Texas Tech University
}}
Harvey Ray Hilderbran (born February 9, 1960){{Cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=149&searchparams=chamber%3D%26city%3D%26countyID%3D0%26district%3D%26first%3DHarvey%26gender%3D%26last%3DHilderbran%26leaderNote%3D%26leg%3D%26party%3D%26roleDesc%3D%26Committee%3D|title = Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Member profile}} is an American politician and former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 53, which included fifteen counties in central Texas. Hilderbran resides in Kerrville west of San Antonio.
Career
In 2008, the Texas Deer Association awarded Hilderbran the "Frank Madla Award for Representative of the Year", named for the late State Senator Frank L. Madla of San Antonio. Hilderbran was also named "Legislator of the Year" in 2007 by the Texas Municipal League, and was the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Legislator Award by the Texas Recreation and Parks Society.
Hilderbran was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/harvey-hilderbran-withdrawal-from-comptroller-runo/nd74y/|title=Kate Alexander, "Glenn Hegar wins GOP comptroller primary after Harvey Hilderbran bows out of runoff"|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|accessdate=March 7, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=3852&id=407|title=Republican primary election returns|publisher=team1.sos.state.tx.us|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307081703/https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=3852&id=407|archivedate=March 7, 2014|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}
Businessman Andrew Stevenson Murr of Junction, Texas, led the March 4 primary to succeed Hilderbran with 9,951 votes (41 percent). Robert Earl "Rob" Henneke (also born c. 1977), a Kerrville lawyer, received 7,030 (29 percent). In third place was Karen D. Harris (born c. 1969) of Kerrville with 5,840 votes (24 percent). Two others held the remaining 6 percent of the ballots cast. Andrew Murr faced the second highest vote-getter, Robert Earl "Rob" Henneke, in a May 27 runoff, winning 9,387 (60.6 percent) to 6,100 (39.4 percent).{{Cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/index.htm|title=HISTORICAL ELECTIONS - OFFICIAL RESULTS|website=elections.sos.state.tx.us|language=en|access-date=2017-05-23}} Without a Democratic Party nominee in District 53, Murr defeated the Libertarian nominee, Maximiliam Martin, 36,878 votes (89.9 percent) to 4,139 (10.1 percent) in the general election on November 4.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030306051656/http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist53/hilderbran.htm Hilderbran's Texas House of Representatives website]
- [http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/outdoors/06/28/0628legcol.html Rep. Harvey Hilderbran being considered as Executive Director of Texas Parks and Wildlife]
- [http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=332 Rep. Hilderbran pushes bill for Texas Parks]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=5M2wVtURpBAC&dq=harvey+hilderbran+exotic&pg=RA2-PA97 Animal Underworld: Rep. Hilderbran's Efforts to Protect America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004107/http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/4037 Roadside snakes may breathe easier, but collectors are gasping] About HB 2414 that was modified in Committee in Harvey Hilderbran
- [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/outdoors/tompkins/4907338.html Session sees relatively few outdoors-related bills] About HB 12 by Harvey Hilderbran
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| district = 53
| hometown = Kerrville
| before = Gerald Geistweidt (then District 67)
| after=Andrew Murr
| years= 1989–2015}}
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Category:Republican Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
Category:People from Kerrville, Texas
Category:People from Uvalde, Texas
Category:Texas Tech University alumni
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Category:Businesspeople from Texas