Ray Hutchison (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elton Ray Hutchison, known as Ray Hutchison (born September 1932), is a prominent Dallas, Texas, attorney, who served in the Texas House of Representatives in the 1970s and is married to the state's senior Republican senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison. In 1957, Hutchison graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with honors. He obtained his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the same institution in 1959. Hutchison is a partner in the firm of Vinson and Elkins, based in the Trammel Crow Building. His principal area of practice is public finance. For more than forty years, he has assisted state and local governments in the use of their constitutional and statutory authority to provide and finance various public activities. Hutchison became chairman of the Texas Republican Party in 1976 but left in 1977 to pursue his gubernatorial campaign. However, in 1978, he lost the nomination to Bill Clements, by a lopsided vote of 115,345 (72.8 percent) to 38,268 (24.2 percent).