Pete Sessions (born March 22, 1955) is a politician from the state of Texas.
Sessions was born in Waco, Texas and he graduated from Southwestern University. Sessions worked with Southwestern Bell. In 1991, he finished third in a special election for the House of Representatives. Sessions ran for Congress again in 1994 against 5th District incumbent Democrat John Bryant. Sessions made a tour of the district with a livestock trailer full of horse manure claiming that the Clinton Health Care plan stunk more than the manure. Sessions lost by a 50%-47% margin. When Bryant decided to seek a Senate seat in 1996, Sessions was elected to succeed him as a Republican. Sessions faced some close campaigns in 1998 and 2000, but when new redistricting placed Sessions in a district that was slightly more Democratic, he moved to the new 32nd District (map). In 2004, Sessions defeated fellow Congressman Martin Frost, who had moved to the 32nd after Republican-engineered redistricting eliminated Frost's former district.
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