John Carona

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John Joseph Carona (born 14 December 1955)^[1] is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 16th District.

First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County. His current senate term runs through the end of the Eightieth Texas Legislature in 2009. Previously, Carona was elected to three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.

Carona serves as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security and as a member of the Senate Criminal Justice, Health and Human Services, and Jurisprudence committees.

Carona has been a resident of East Dallas since early childhood. He was educated in the Dallas Independent School District, graduating from Bryan Adams High School. He received bachelors of business administration degrees in insurance and real estate from The University of Texas at Austin in 1978 and currently serves as president of a Dallas-based, national real estate management firm.

Though it is fairly unusual for a Texas legislator to involve himself in local politics, Carona was visible in a recent Dallas Independent School District election where he supported failed candidate Lois Parrott with an endorsement letter.^[2]

Carona - a real estate broker, a homeowner association management company owner, and an active CAI lobby group member shapes Texas laws for the homeowner association industry. The legislation he helped write for CAI foreclosure lawyers has been very profitable for his real estate business - his website states that his management company is now the largest in America Senator John Carona - homeowner associations

Contents 1 Election history 1.1 Most recent election 1.1.1 2004 1.2 Previous elections 1.2.1 2002 1.2.2 1998 2 References 3 External link

[edit] Election history

Senate election history of Carona from 1998.^[3]

[edit] Most recent election

[edit] 2004

Texas general election, 2004: Senate District 16[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	John Carona (Incumbent)	142,542	100.00	+35.93
Majority			142,542	100.00	+69.95
Turnout			142,542		-4.72
	Republican hold

[edit] Previous elections

[edit] 2002

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 16[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	John Carona (Incumbent)	95,853	67.07	-35.93
	Democratic	Jan Erik Frederiksen	50,895	34.02	+34.02
	Libertarian	Jack Thompson	2,857	1.91	+1.91
Majority			44,958	30.05	-69.95
Turnout			149,605		+85.15
	Republican hold

[edit] 1998

Texas general election, 1998: Senate District 16[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	John Carona (Incumbent)[7]	80,802	100.00
Majority			80,802	100.00
Turnout			80,802
	Republican hold

[edit] References

[edit] External link

• Official Biography on the Texas Senate website.

Preceded by Bill Hammond	Member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 109 (Dallas) 1991–1993	Succeeded by Helen Giddings
Preceded by Al Granoff	Member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 108 (Dallas) 1993–1996	Succeeded by Carolyn Galloway
Preceded by John N. Leedom	Texas State Senator from District 16 (Dallas)(a) 1996 – present	Incumbent
(a) For the 76th through the 77th Legislatures, Carona’s home city was Garland

Current Texas State Senators

1: Eltife (R) • 2: Deuell (R) • 3: Nichols (R) • 4: Williams (R) • 5: Ogden (R) • 6: Gallegos (D) • 7: Patrick (R) • 8: Shapiro (R) • 9: Harris (R) • 10: Brimer (R) • 11: Jackson (R) • 12: Nelson (R) • 13: Ellis (D) • 14: Watson (D) • 15: Whitmire (D) • 16: Carona (R) • 17: Janek (R) • 18: Hegar (R) • 19: Uresti (D) • 20: Hinojosa (D) • 21: Zaffirini (D) • 22: Averitt (R) • 23: West (D) • 24: Fraser (R) • 25: Wentworth (R) • 26: Van de Putte (D) • 27: Lucio (D) • 28: Duncan (R) • 29: Shapleigh (D) • 30: Estes (R) • 31: Seliger (R)

Persondata
NAME	John Joseph Carona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Dallas, Texas politician
DATE OF BIRTH	14 December 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH