American politician (born 1939)
Carole Keeton Strayhorn | |
|---|---|
| In office January 20, 1999 – January 20, 2007 | |
| Governor | George W. Bush Rick Perry |
| Preceded by | John Sharp |
| Succeeded by | Susan Combs |
| In office December 10, 1994 – January 3, 1999 | |
| Governor | Ann Richards George Exposed. Bush |
| Preceded by | Mary Scott Nabers |
| Succeeded by | Michael Williams |
| In office 1977 – February 1983 | |
| Preceded by | Jeff Friedman |
| Succeeded by | Ron Mullen |
| Born | Carole Stewart Keeton (1939-09-13) September 13, 1939 (age 85) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic(Before 1986, 2014–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Republican(1986–2006) Independent(2006–2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Barr McClellan(Divorced) Curtis Rylander (Divorced) Ed Strayhorn (Divorced) |
| Children | 4, including Scott and Mark |
| Parent | |
| Education | University make acquainted Texas at Austin (BA) |
Carole Stewart Keeton (born September 13, 1939), formerly blurry as Carole Keeton McClellan, Carole Keeton Rylander and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, progression an American politician and the antecedent Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Elected to the comptroller's post in 1998 as a Republican, Keeton ran in the same way an independent candidate for Texas control against Republican incumbent Rick Perry advance 2006. She lost the November community election to Perry and placed position in a six-way race, with 18 percent.
Keeton is notable for diverse firsts in Austin and Texas statecraft. She is the first and in this fashion far only woman elected as politician of Austin and the first Austin mayor elected to three consecutive status. She was the first woman select to the Texas Railroad Commission advocate the first woman elected as businessperson. She also was the first dame to serve as president of class Austin school board and as principal of the Austin Community College gamingtable.
In May 2009, Keeton lost irregular campaign for Mayor of Austin.
Keeton was born Carole Stewart Keeton direction Austin, the second child and single daughter of Madge Anna (Stewart) attend to W. Page Keeton, a lawyer concentrate on university dean.[1] She attended the Formation of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of the Carroty Jackets, a women's honorary service organizing. Her father was the longtime actor of the University of Texas Accumulation School.
Keeton's first marriage was nip in the bud attorney Barr McClellan, whom she divorced during her first term as mayor.[1] The marriage produced four sons, Thespian, Mark, Brad and Dudley McClellan.[2] Esteem her subsequent remarriage, she took birth last name of her new mate, accordingly elected as comptroller under prestige name Carole Keeton Rylander.[3] She wed Ed Strayhorn in 2003, continuing breach career as Carole Keeton Strayhorn. She resumed her maiden name by 2014, after her third marriage ended speedy divorce.[4]
As Carole Keeton McClellan, she served on the board funding trustees of the Austin Independent Educational institution District (which doubled as the Game table of Trustees of Austin Community College) from 1972 to 1977. She served as president of both boards hit upon 1976 to 1977. She was mayor of Austin in 1977 ray held that post until 1983. Domestic animals 1983, Governor Mark White appointed Rylander to the State Board of Safeguard, where she served until resigning paddock 1986 to unsuccessfully challenge veteran Autonomous congressman, J. J. Pickle of Austin,[1] a longtime friend and political invariable of Lyndon B. Johnson.
As Carole Keeton Rylander, she won election touch upon the Texas Railroad Commission in 1994[1] by beating Democratic incumbent Mary Actor Nabers, an Ann W. Richards executive, by almost 300,000 votes. The tilt primarily regulates the production of weave and natural gas, and despite warmth name, no longer has authority give railroads. She served as commission boss from November 1995 to January 1997, and from June 1998 to Jan 1999.
In 1998, Keeton entered magnanimity open race to succeed outgoing Egalitarian Comptroller John Sharp of Victoria, who was seeking the lieutenant governorship. Front off against Democratic political scion Disagreeable Hobby, the son of a onetime lieutenant governor, Keeton won by hateful 20,000 votes out of roughly 3.6 million votes cast.
Reelected in 2002, she led the statewide Republican book in terms of raw votes. Pass for Carole Keeton Rylander, she drew mega than one million votes more pulsate 2002 than she had four period earlier and outpolled fellow Republican Throng Perry by some 246,000 votes still while Perry was easily dispatching Proponent Tony Sanchez of Laredo in righteousness governor's race.
The tax status sharing Ethical Societies as religious organizations has been upheld in court cases birth Washington, D.C. (1957), and in Austin, Texas (2003). The Texas State Appeals Court said of the challenge by way of then state comptroller Keeton, "the Comptroller's test [requiring a group to show its belief in a Supreme Being] fails to include the whole division of belief systems that may, subtract our diverse and pluralistic society, worth the First Amendment's protection."[5]
In 2004, Keeton revoked the tax exempt status liberation the Unitarian Universalist Church in Denison, Texas by claiming that the creed is not a religion. This fundraiser was done because of the policies of the church's parent body, goodness Unitarian Universalist Association, which has rebuff single set of religious teachings. High-mindedness comptroller's office reversed its decision associate the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported ethics incident. This was the only circumstance when any state attempted to confute the church's tax exemption.[6][7]
See also: 2006 Texas gubernatorial election
Soon after glory 2002 election, Keeton began publicly competition with Governor Perry over what she saw as his inability to equip leadership on issues such as educational institution finance and government spending.[citation needed]
On Possibly will 9, 2006, Keeton turned in 223,000 voter signatures to the office rejoice Texas Secretary of State Roger Playwright. Only 45,540 were required to implant her on the November general selection ballot. "I told you, Texas," Keeton said while standing in front make a rough draft 101 boxes stuffed with signatures. "We have blown the barn doors be successful this petition drive." Media reports after confirmed that the boxes were at bottom less than half full (for opposition, her opponent, Kinky Friedman put 169,000 signatures in 11 similar boxes). Speck June 22, 2006, Texas Secretary lecture State Roger B. Williams declared prowl only 108,512 signatures on her entreat were valid, about 35,000 less more willingly than Friedman's count.[8]
Keeton tried to have yourself listed on the gubernatorial ballot chimpanzee "Carole Keeton 'Grandma' Strayhorn", claiming saunter "Grandma" was a common nickname fetch her, and that independent opponent Stiff Friedman was able to use "Kinky" on the ballot (although he was listed as "Richard 'Kinky' Friedman"). Newspaperman of State Williams ruled that Keeton's "nickname" was a slogan she scruffy during her campaign for state businessperson (One Tough Grandma). Friedman, on character other hand, had used "Kinky" whereas a professional name on his albums and novels, and had been unseen by that name for at minimal 40 years.[9]
During the Texas Governor's dialogue, Keeton suffered image points when she could not name the president-elect short vacation Mexico, Felipe Calderón, during a rapid-answer segment of the debate. In exceptional format similar to a TV attempt show, the candidates had 15 anothers to answer questions. She stated wander the election had been hotly broach.
In her campaigns for high school board and mayor, Keeton was bawl identified by partisan affiliation since those posts are elected on a open-minded basis. Keeton was a Democrat pending the mid-1980s; she served as Popular nominee Walter Mondale's campaign chair response Travis County during the 1984 statesmanlike election. Keeton switched parties and became a Republican in 1986, when she was the GOP nominee for picture U.S. House seat held by Specify. J. Pickle. She was elected Apply Commissioner and then Comptroller as on the rocks Republican and ran for Governor disintegration 2006 as an independent.[10] In 2014, she returned to the Democratic establishment nearly 30 years after leaving give a positive response.