Dan Morales
Daniel C. Morales (born April 24, 1956) is an American politician. He served as the 48th Texas Attorney General, Attorney General of Texas from January 15, 1991 through January 13, 1999, during the administrations of Governor of Texas, Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. As Attorney General, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies. He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the ''Hopwood v. Texas'' case, which ended all affirmative action in higher education in Texas until the United States Supreme Court reversed ''Hopwood'' in 2003. He is a graduate of Trinity University (Texas), Trinity University in San Antonio and Harvard Law School. Road to the Texas Legislature Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, Morales landed his first postgraduate job at the Houston corporate law firm Bracewell and Patterson in 1981 and the following year joined the Bexar County district attorney's office. After an eighteen-month stint of ...
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Attorney General Of Texas
The Texas attorney general is the chief legal officer
of the U.S. state of . The current officeholder, Republican Ken Paxton, has served in the position since January 5, 2015. Some of the office is housed at the William P. Clements State Office Building in Downtown
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