Tracy Ogden King (born November 9, 1960) is a businessman from Batesville, Texas, who has been since 1995 a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 80. Beginning in January 2013, the revised District 80 includes these counties south of San Antonio: Dimmit, Frio, Uvalde, Zapata, Zavala plus the rural portions of Webb County outside Laredo.King is one of only seven Anglo Democrats in the current Texas House and the only Anglo Democrat from a heavily rural district. By contrast, there were eighty-three Anglo Democrats in the House in 1987, with fifty-six of those from primarily rural areas.King was initially elected to the House in November 1994, when he unseated 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).With is 2012 victory, King has since been elected to nine more two-year terms.
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