Candidate · U.S. House, District 6
Jake Ellzey
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- U.S. Representative, Texas District 6 (since 2021)
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative; retired U.S. Navy commander
- Lives in
- Midlothian area
Background
- Born in 1970 in Amarillo; B.S. in political science from the U.S. Naval Academy (1992). source: en.wikipedia.org
- U.S. Navy fighter pilot, 1992 to 2012, with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq; retired as a commander. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Commissioner on the Texas Veterans Commission, 2012 to 2018; later a Southwest Airlines pilot. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Texas House District 10, January to July 2021. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Won the July 2021 special election runoff for U.S. House District 6 and was sworn in July 30, 2021; won the March 2026 Republican primary with about 66% of the vote. source: en.wikipedia.org
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