Name: | Kent Hance |
Occupation: | Politician |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | November 14, 1942 |
Age: | 78 |
Country: | United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio |
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Before Fame
After earning a business degree from Texas Tech University, he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law and subsequently served in the Texas State Senate.
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Hance obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance from the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University in 1965 where he was also a member of Delta Tau Delta, which he served as president. He also served as the Student Government Association Vice-President and was a member of the Saddle Tramps.
He later attended the University of Texas School of Law. During his time as a law student, he was the Student Bar Association President and chosen as recipient of the Counsel Award. After law school, he was admitted to the Texas bar and in 1968 became a practicing attorney in Lubbock, Texas. During this period, he was also a law professor at Texas Tech from 1968 until 1973.
In 1974, Hance ran for the Texas Senate and defeated incumbent H.J. “Doc” Blanchard in the 1974 primary. His campaign at the beginning seemed doomed to failure, but Hance quickly made connection with voters in the sprawling West Texas district.
As a Democratic member of Congress during 1979–1985, Hance was a member of the “boll-weevil” conservative Democrats. As such, he became one of President Ronald Reagan’s allies and carried his tax-cut, the nation’s largest tax cut, in 1981.
Hance was reelected two times. His voting record was very conservative even by Texas Democrat standards; he compiled a lifetime rating of 72 from the American Conservative Union. He did not run for a fourth term in 1984, opting instead to seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring John Tower. Hance announced within hours of Tower’s withdrawal that he would run for the Senate. He was defeated by only 273 votes — a very narrow margin — by State Senator Lloyd Doggett of Austin, who lost the general election but later served many years in the House. Hance had received a great deal of support from conservative Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for him in the race, since Hance had run on a conservative platform. Geography also played a role in Hance’s loss to Doggett; no one from west of San Antonio has ever represented Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Hance switched parties from Democratic to Republican in 1985. In 1986, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Instead, the Republicans called former Governor Bill Clements out of retirement for the right to challenge Democratic Governor Mark White. In 1988, Hance was a Texas delegate to his first ever Republican National Convention, which met in New Orleans.
In 1985, Hance received the Texas Tech Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2009, Hance received the South Plains Council Boy Scouts of America John F. Lott Distinguished Citizen Award. In 2009–2010, Hance received the Outstanding Texas State Leader Award at the Annual Texas Leadership Forum, presented by the John Ben Shepperd Public Leadership Institute. Additionally, Hance received the Hope Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society West Texas Chapter in April 2010.
In 1987, Clements appointed his former intraparty rival Hance to a vacancy on the Texas Railroad Commission.
In 1988, Hance was elected as a Republican to the commission on the coattails of presidential nominee George H.W. Bush, the father of George W. Bush whom Hance had defeated in the 1978 election for the 19th Congressional District. He left the Railroad Commission in 1990, once again to seek the Republican nomination for governor but was heavily defeated in the primary by controversial Midland businessman Clayton Williams. In the primary against Williams, Hance finished second but with only 15 percent of the ballots.
Hance donated money to George W. Bush’s campaign for Governor of Texas in 1993.
On May 1, 2011, Texas Tech University announced that Kent Hance provided the largest gift, $1.75 million, toward the $3 million privately funded non-denominational campus chapel, named the Kent R. Hance Chapel designed by McKinney York Architects.
After raising $1.69 billion in funds for Texas Tech, Hance announced on October 13, 2013, that he will step down as chancellor at some time in 2014. The regents voted to name him chancellor-emeritus upon his retirement. His contract expires in December 2013 but he will continue in the position for an undetermined number of months thereafter. Hance has residences in both Austin and Lubbock.
🎂 Upcoming Birthday
Currently, Kent Hance is 79 years, 10 months and 17 days old. Kent Hance will celebrate 80th birthday on a Monday 14th of November 2022.
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