Tracy King

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Tracy O. King

| image = File:Tracy King.jpg

| state_house = Texas

| district = 80th

| term_start = January 11, 2005

| predecessor = Timoteo Garza

| successor = Donald McLaughlin

| state_house1 = Texas

| district1 = 43rd

| term_start1 = January 10, 1995

| term_end1 = January 14, 2003

| predecessor1 = Pedro G. Nieto

| successor1 = Irma Lerma Rangel

| party = Democratic

| birth_name = Tracy Ogden King

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|11|09}}

| birth_place =

| profession = Hearing aid specialist, politician

| residence = Uvalde, Texas, U.S.

| spouse = Cheryl Baker

| children = 2

| alma_mater = Southwest Texas Junior College

Texas A&M University

| term_end = January 14, 2025

}}

Tracy Ogden King (born November 9, 1960) is an American politician and hearing aid specialist from Uvalde, who was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for nearly thirty years. He represented the 80th district from 2005 to 2025 and the 43rd district from 1995 to 2003.{{cite web|url=https://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=193|title=Tracy O. King|work=Texas Legislators: Past & Present|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library}} King was first elected to Texas House of Representatives as a representative of the 43rd district on November 8, 1994, when he unseated the one-term Democrat-turned-Republican incumbent, Pedro G. Nieto.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} King was elected to a total of fifteen two-year terms in the Texas House of Representatives. He is a senior advisor to Dustin Burrows, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.{{cite web|url=https://www.txdirectory.com/online/person/?id=72369|title=Tracy O. King|website=Texas State Directory|accessdate=April 24, 2025}}

Biography

King graduated from Carrizo Springs High School in Carrizo Springs, the county seat of Dimmit County, Texas. He then attended Southwest Texas Junior College, and Texas A&M University at College Station, from which he received his Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering. In 1983, King was employed by the Beltone Hearing Aid Center in San Antonio, which served sixteen counties in southwestern Texas. King purchased the Beltone center in 1987 and sold it in 2008. King and his wife, the former Cheryl Baker, originally from Hondo, the county seat of Medina County, have two children, Katelyn Marie King and Clayton Baker King. King is a former trustee of the First United Methodist Church. He is a past president of the Uvalde Kiwanis Club. He is a former president of the Texas Hearing Aid Association.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} King is a former chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, former member of the Energy Resources Committee, and a former chairman of the House Water Caucus while in the Texas House of Representatives.

=Political career=

King began his career in the Texas House of Representatives as a representative of the 43rd district in 1995 after he defeated the one-term Democrat-turned-Republican incumbent, Pedro G. Nieto. King received 15,072 votes (61.8 percent) to Nieto's 9,321 (38.2 percent).{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

==2012 election==

King won renomination in the Democratic primary election held on May 29, 2012. King said that he opposes state tax increases and will pursue ways to improve the business climate in south Texas. In the primary, King faced Jerry Garza (born 1976), a former two-term member from District 3 of the Webb County Commissioner's Court, also a former television reporter for KGNS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Laredo, and a former faculty member at Laredo Community College. Garza had sought to become the second Democrat from Laredo in the state House. Through April 18, 2012, King amassed $74,350 in campaign contributions, compared to $4,800 for Garza. Only 15 percent of King's contributions came from within District 80, but he did receive a contribution from wealthy Laredo businessman Steve LaMantia. Garza said that most of King's contributions came from lobbyists and political action committees beyond the district.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} After King defeated Garza in the primary, King was unopposed in the November 6, 2012, general election.

Electoral history

Year	Type of Election	% of Votes Won
class="wikitable"
2022	General Election	100.00 (unopposed){{cite web\|title=Texas Rep. Tracy King\|url=http://www.texastribune.org/directory/tracy-king/\|publisher=The Texas Tribune\|access-date=November 23, 2023}}
2022	Democratic Party Primary Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2020	General Election
2020	Democratic Party Primary Election
2018	General Election
2018	Democratic Party Primary Election
2016	General Election
2016	Democratic Party Primary Election
2014	General Election	89.59{{cite web\|url=https://www.texastribune.org/directory/tracy-king/\|title=State Rep. Tracy King - Election info\|publisher=The Texas Tribune\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802064050/https://www.texastribune.org/directory/tracy-king/\|archive-date=August 2, 2016\|url-status=dead\|via=The Wayback Machine}}
2014	Democratic Party Primary Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2012	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2012	Democratic Party Primary Election	59.66
2010	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2010	Democratic Party Primary Election
2008	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2008	Democratic Party Primary Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2006	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2006	Democratic Party Primary Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2004	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2004	Democratic Primary Election
2000	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
2000	Democratic Party Primary Election	63.82
1998	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
1998	Democratic Primary	100.00 (unopposed)
1996	General Election	100.00 (unopposed)
1996	Democratic Party Primary Election	100.00 (unopposed)
1994	General Election	61.79
1994	Democratic Primary Election	51.97
1992	Democratic Primary Runoff Election	Lost 48.61
1992	Democratic Primary Election	Runoff 34.55