Joseph Cole Hefner, known as Cole Hefner (born November 13, 1980), is a Republican member of the

Texas House of Representatives The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 United States census, each member represents abou ...

from Mount Pleasant,

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

. He was first elected in 2016 to represent the 5th District and assumed office in January 2017. He succeeded Bryan Hughes, who was instead elected to the

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. Hefner handily won a second legislative term in the

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held on November 6, 2018. With 44,264 votes (79.3 percent), he defeated Democrat Bill Liebbe, who polled 11,540 votes (20.7 percent).

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External links

Cole Hefner for State Representative

State legislative page

Cole Hefner at the Texas Tribune
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