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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Robert Anthony Stovall, Sr.
|birth_date=April 1, 1963
|residence=[[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|spouse=Melanie Flores Stovall (married 1983)<br>
Children:
Jacqueline Eberle<br>
Captain Robert Stovall, II<br>
Zachary Stovall
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|office=Chairman of the [[Republican Party]]<br> of Bexar County, [[Texas]]
|term_start=September 2013
|term_end=December 4, 2017
|preceded=
|succeeded=[[Mark Dorazio]] (interim)
}}
'''Robert Anthony Stovall, Sr. (born April 1, 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/robert-stovall/150455914|title=Robert Stovall|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 26, 2018}}</ref> is a [[San Antonio]] [[business]]man who is the past chairman of the [[Republican Party]] in populous Bexar County, [[Texas]]. He is one of eighteen candidates in the primary election scheduled for March 6, 2018, for the 21st congressional district seat in Texas being vacated by fellow Republican [[Lamar Smith]], who was first elected in 1986.

A [[Roman Catholic]] born in [[Mexico City]], Stovall is the third son of five children of Lawrence Samuels Stovall and the former Rita Alvarez De Teresa. Reared in San Antonio, he graduated in 1981 from Antonian College Preparatory High School. He thereafter attended San Antonio College and transferred to the University of North Texas in Denton to study chemistry. In 1983, he wed his high school sweetheart, Melanie Flores. The couple has a daughter, Jacqueline Eberle of [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], and two sons, [[United States Army]]  Captain Robert Stovall, II, who has served in [[Afghanistan]], and   Zachary Stovall of  San Antonio. The Stovalls in 2018 had seven grandchildren.<ref name=rstovall>{{cite web|url=https://robertstovall.com/pages/about|title=Robert Stovall for Congress|publisher=Robertstovall.com|accessdate=January 26, 2018}}</ref>

At the time of his marriage, Stovall was employed by Crown Research & Chemical Corporation. In 1988, he became finance director for Ancira Enterprises. The next year he launched the Crown Ribbon Company, which imports textiles and home décor products from Mexico. He is currently the chief financial officer of Janal Wholesale Floral Company, a family business, the owner of La Flor International, and has interest in several other business ventures.<ref name=rstovall/>
 
In 2012, Stovall was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Bexar County Tax Assessor Collector, but he was defeated by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Albert Uresti when [[Barack H. Obama]] won Bexar County by 23,000 votes over [[Mitt Romney]] in the presidential race. After a short stint as vice chairman of the GOP in Bexar County, Stovall was elected party chairman three times, September 2013, March 2014, and March 2016. He resigned the post on December 4 , 2017, to run for the congressional seat.<ref name=rstovall/>  

Stovall is an avid backer of [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]]; the ''San Antonio Express-News'' calls Stovall "effusive, worshipful, and fully committed to hitching his wagon to Trump's brash rhetoric, nationalist agenda, and stated determination to 'drain the swamp' in [[Washington, D.C.]]"<ref>Gilbert Garcia, "Candidate out to Make District 21 great again", ''San Antonio Express-News'', January 26, 2018, p. A2.</ref>   Indeed in his 30-second video commercial, Stovall is shown standing knee-deep in the middle of a swamp wearing fishing waders and a white "Make Amerioca Great Again" cap and asserting his backing for Trump..<ref name=saen/>     

Stovall's friend, Brad Parscale, served as Trump's 2016 digital director and is now working to elect Stovall to Congress. <ref name=saen/> Stovall had recommended Parscale's father, Dwight Parscale, as his interim successor, but the precinct leaders instead tapped businessman [[Mark Dorazio]].

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