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'''William David Edwards''', known as '''Davey Edwards''' (born November 10, 1970), is a land surveyor from Decatur in Wise County, [[Texas]], who is a [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate for state commissioner of the General Land Office in the party [[primary]] scheduled for March 6, 2018. He will face the incumbent commissioner, [[George P. Bush]], son of former [[Governor]] [[Jeb Bush]] of [[Florida]], grandson of former [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], and nephew of former President [[George W. Bush]]. Also in the running is Bush's predecessor in the office, former three-term Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a Republican from [[Houston]] and [[Austin]], Texas, who gave up the office to run in 2014, unsuccessfully, for lieutenant governor in a four-candidate field dominated by conservative [[Dan Patrick]], who went on to win the nomination and the general election.

'''William David Edwards''', known as '''Davey Edwards''' (born November 10, 1970), is a land surveyor from Decatur in Wise County, [[Texas]], who is a [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate for state commissioner of the General Land Office in the party [[primary]] scheduled for March 6, 2018. He will face the incumbent commissioner, [[George P. Bush]], son of former [[Governor]] [[Jeb Bush]] of [[Florida]], grandson of former [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], and nephew of former President [[George W. Bush]]. Also in the running is Bush's predecessor in the office, former three-term Land Commissioner [[Jerry Patterson]], a Republican from [[Houston]] and [[Austin]], Texas, who gave up the office to run in 2014, unsuccessfully, for lieutenant governor in a four-candidate field dominated by conservative [[Dan Patrick]], who went on to win the nomination and the general election.

Edwards received both Bachelor of (1993) and Master of Science degrees from [[Texas A&M University]] in College Station and a [[Ph.D.]] in geosciences from the University of Texas at [[Dallas]]. A sixth-generation Texan and a native of [[Fort Worth]], he is the vice president of Edwards Surveying in Decatur. His father, Tommy Troy Edwards (born January 30, 1946), is the company president. Edwards is also an adjunct professor of [[geology]] at Weatherford College in Parker County west of [[Fort Worth]]. He is an authority on boundaries changed by rivers altering their course. He is the chairman of the Decatur Planning and Zoning  Commission, in which capacity he has defended private property rights against involuntary annexation. This was prior to legislative passage in 2017 of the new state annexation law. In 2017, Edwards successfully defended property rights along the Red River in a showdown in [[Washington, D.C.]], with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/DrDaveyEdwards/|title=Davey Edwards|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=December 7, 2017}}</ref> 

Edwards received both Bachelor of (1993) and Master of Science degrees from [[Texas A&M University]] in College Station and a [[Ph.D.]] in geosciences from the University of Texas at [[Dallas]]. A sixth-generation Texan and a native of [[Fort Worth]], he is the vice president of Edwards Surveying in Decatur. His father, Tommy Troy Edwards (born January 30, 1946), is the company president. Edwards is also an adjunct professor of [[geology]] at Weatherford College in Parker County west of [[Fort Worth]]. He is an authority on boundaries changed by rivers altering their course. He is the chairman of the Decatur Planning and Zoning  Commission, in which capacity he has defended private property rights against involuntary annexation. This was prior to legislative passage in 2017 of the new state annexation law. In 2017, Edwards successfully defended property rights along the Red River in a showdown in [[Washington, D.C.]], with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/DrDaveyEdwards/|title=Davey Edwards|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=December 7, 2017}}</ref>