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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Matthew Haston "Matt" Krause
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office= [[Texas]] State Representative for<br> District 93 (part of Tarrant County)]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=January 8, 2013
|term_end=
|preceded=Barbara Parrish Nash
|birth_date=August 19, 1980}
|birth_place=[[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]], [[[Texas]], USA
|occupation=[[Attorney]] and political [[activist]]
|residence=[[Fort Worth]], Texas
|spouse=Jennie Sue Napier Krause
|children=Jeremiah, Hannah Sue, and James Reagan Krause
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|alma_mater=San Diego Christian College<br>
[[Liberty University]] School of Law (Lynchburg, [[Virginia]])
}}
'''Matthew Haston Krause''', known as '''Matt Krause''' (born August 19, 1980)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tx--ala.capwiz.com/bio/id/63328|title=Rep. Matt Krause (R-TX 93rd District)|publisher=Texas Library Association|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref> is an [[attorney]] and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 93, which encompasses a portion of Haslet in Tarrant County in [[suburb]]an [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5747&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Krause~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Matt Krause|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}</ref>
Considered one of the most [[conservative]] of all current Texas legislators, Krause was first elected in 2012 and ran unopposed for a second two-year term in the November 2014 [[general election]].<ref name=votesmart/>
==Background==
Born in [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]] in Smith County in East Texas, Krause is the son of a [[Baptist]] pastor and a teacher. He lived for a time as a child in Ranger in Eastland County and Whitehouse in Smith County before his parents moved the family to [[San Antonio]]. He attended Thousand Oaks Elementary School and graduated in 1998 from the Castle Hills First Baptist School]in suburban Castle Hills in Bexar County, where his mother was a faculty member. In his senior year Krause, who played mostly [[basketball]], was named the "Greater San Antonio Male Athlete of the Year" by the [[Fellowship of Christian Athletes]].<ref name=ttribune>{{cite web|url=http://www.texastribune.org/directory/matt-krause/#ui-tabs-1|title=State Rep. Matt Krause, District 93 (R-Fort Worth)|publisher=[The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref>
After high school, Krause attended San Diego Christian College in Santee in suburban [[San Diego]], [[California]], where his basketball skills brought his team in his sophomore year to the Final 4 of the [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics]]. He carried both athletic and academic scholarship by the time he graduated. Thereafter, Krause, who had married the former Jennie Sue Napier while in college, enrolled and subsequently graduated in 2007 in the inaugural class of [[Jerry Falwell]]'s [[Liberty University]] School of Law in Lynchburg, [[Virginia]]. Krause worked on the ''Law Review'' and the moot court program and graduated third in his class.<ref name=ttribune/>
The Krauses are members of the Glenview Baptist Church in Fort Worth.<ref name=ttribune/>They have three children, Jeremiah (born 2007), Hannah Sue (born 2008), and James Reagan Krause (born 2012).<ref name=votesmart/>
==Political life==
After law school, Krause opened a Texas office of Liberty Counsel, a [[nonprofit organization]] devoted to the sanctity of human life, religious liberties, and the traditional family. It was this venture which brought the Krauses to Fort Worth. He became a precinct chairman for the Tarrant County Republican Party and worked to draw voters in both [[primary]] and [[general election]]s cycles. He is president of the Northwest Tarrant Republican Club. He also worked to cement the bond between the Republican Party and the [[Tea Party movement]].<ref name=ttribune/>
Krause first ran for the state House in District 99 in the 2010 Republican primary, when he was defeated by the long-term incumbent Charlie Geren, 8,037 votes (57.6 percent) to 5,915 (42.4 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 2, 2010 (House District 99).</ref>
In the May 29, 2012 Republican primary, Krause ran in his current District 93 against the one-term incumbent Barbara Parrish Nash (born c. 1944), a former school board and city council member in Arlington, Texas, and a third candidate, Patricia "Pat" Carlson. Krause won the nomination without need for a runoff election with 3,098 votes (50.7 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, May 29, 2012 (House District 92).</ref>
In 2010, Nash had unseated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Paula Pierson, by 431 votes, 49.3 percent to 47.6 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe|title=General election returns, November 2, 2010 (House District 92)|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=March 18, 2014}}</ref>
In the November 6, 2012 general election, Krause defeated the Democrat Shane Hardin and the [[Libertarian Party]] choice, Bruce Beckman. He polled 29,527 votes (58.9 percent) to Hardin's 18,797 (37.5 percent), and Beckman's 1,768 (3.5 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, General Election Returns, November 6, 2012 (House District 93).</ref>
Krause is a member of the House committees of (1) County Affairs and (2) Special Purpose Districts, the same assignments as his District 92 colleague, Jonathan Stickland]<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/117467/matt-krause#.UyjU28tOUfg|title=Matt Krause's Biography|publisher=votesmart.com|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref>
In March 2015, Krause introduced legislation known as the Unborn Child Due Process Act, which would clarify a legal provision in the Texas Advance Directives Act that forbids anyone from withholding or withdrawing treatment from a pregnant patient. The bill would permit the state to appoint an ad litem to represent the interest of the unborn child in situations where life-sustaining treatment of a pregnant patient is in jeopardy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/lsp-rep_-krause-unborn-child-due-process-act-032215_Dallas-Fort-Worth-297067101.html|title=Lone Star Politics: Unborn Child Due Process Act|publisher=[[NBC]] in Dallas-Fort Worth|accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref>
===Legislative positions===
A [[pro-life]] legislator, Krause supported in 2013 the ban on [[abortion]] after twenty weeks of gestation; the measure passed the House, 96-49. He co-sponsored companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers,<ref name=votingrecords/> a law that the opponents claim could shut down many abortion clinics. These issues brought forth an unsuccessful [[filibuster]] in the Texas State Senate by the Republican-turned-Democrat Wendy Russell of Fort Worth, who in 2014 as her party's nominee for [[governor]] was handily defeated by Republican [[Greg Abbott]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Filibuster in Texas Senate Tries to Halt Abortion Bill|author=M. Fernandez|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/senate-democrats-in-texas-try-blocking-abortion-bill-with-filibuster.html|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=June 26, 2013|accessdate=March 9, 2014}}</ref> The Texas [[Right to Life]] Committee rated Krause 87 percent favorable.<ref name=ratings/>
Krause voted against the legislation to establish a taxpayer-funded breakfast program for public schools; the popular measure nevertheless passed the House, 73-58. He co-sponsored legislation to provide marshals for school security as a separate law-enforcement entity. He voted for the extension of the franchise tax exemption to certain businesses, which passed the House 117-24. He voted against the adoption of the biennial 2013 state budget. He voted to require testing for [[narcotics]] of those individuals receiving unemployment compensation. Krause voted against the "equal pay for women" measure, which nevertheless passed the House, 78-61.<ref name=votingrecords/>
Krause sponsored the measure to forbid the state from engaging in the enforcement of federal regulations of firearms. He sponsored related legislation to permit college and university officials to |carry concealed weapons in the name of campus security. He voted to reduce the time required to obtain a concealed-carry permit in Texas. He backed the [[redistricting]] bills for the state House and Senate and the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He voted against term limits for certain state officials. He voted against the bill to prohibit texting while driving. In the name of election integrity, he voted for legislation to forbid one individual from turning in multiple ballots.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/117467/matt-krause|title=Matt Krause's Voting Records|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}</ref>
===Interest group ratings===
In 2013, [[Phyllis Schlafly]]'s [[Eagle Forum]], then managed in Texas by [[Cathie Adams]], a former state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, rated Krause 100 percent favorable; the Young Conservatives of Texas, 95 percent. The Texas League of Conservation Voters rated him 50 percent; a similar group, Environment Texas, rated him 37 percent. The interest group Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, founded by Michael Quinn Sullivan, rated him 100 percent. The Texas Association of Business scored Krause 73 percent. The [[National Rifle Association]] rated him 92 percent, based on candidate statements in 2012.<ref name=ratings>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/117467/matt-krause#.UykCLctOUfg|title=Matt Krause's Ratings and Endorsements|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}</ref>
===Presidential endorsement===
In the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Krause supported [[U.S. Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]], who subsequently lost to [[Donald Trump]]. He endorsed conservative David Watts in the District 7 House race. Watts in 2014 had unsuccessfully opposed [[George P. Bush]] for the position of Texas General Land Office Commissioner.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krause, Matt}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Pro-Life]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
|name=Matthew Haston "Matt" Krause
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office= [[Texas]] State Representative for<br> District 93 (part of Tarrant County)]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=January 8, 2013
|term_end=
|preceded=Barbara Parrish Nash
|birth_date=August 19, 1980}
|birth_place=[[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]], [[[Texas]], USA
|occupation=[[Attorney]] and political [[activist]]
|residence=[[Fort Worth]], Texas
|spouse=Jennie Sue Napier Krause
|children=Jeremiah, Hannah Sue, and James Reagan Krause
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|alma_mater=San Diego Christian College<br>
[[Liberty University]] School of Law (Lynchburg, [[Virginia]])
}}
'''Matthew Haston Krause''', known as '''Matt Krause''' (born August 19, 1980)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tx--ala.capwiz.com/bio/id/63328|title=Rep. Matt Krause (R-TX 93rd District)|publisher=Texas Library Association|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref> is an [[attorney]] and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 93, which encompasses a portion of Haslet in Tarrant County in [[suburb]]an [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5747&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Krause~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Matt Krause|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}</ref>
Considered one of the most [[conservative]] of all current Texas legislators, Krause was first elected in 2012 and ran unopposed for a second two-year term in the November 2014 [[general election]].<ref name=votesmart/>
==Background==
Born in [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]] in Smith County in East Texas, Krause is the son of a [[Baptist]] pastor and a teacher. He lived for a time as a child in Ranger in Eastland County and Whitehouse in Smith County before his parents moved the family to [[San Antonio]]. He attended Thousand Oaks Elementary School and graduated in 1998 from the Castle Hills First Baptist School]in suburban Castle Hills in Bexar County, where his mother was a faculty member. In his senior year Krause, who played mostly [[basketball]], was named the "Greater San Antonio Male Athlete of the Year" by the [[Fellowship of Christian Athletes]].<ref name=ttribune>{{cite web|url=http://www.texastribune.org/directory/matt-krause/#ui-tabs-1|title=State Rep. Matt Krause, District 93 (R-Fort Worth)|publisher=[The Texas Tribune''|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref>
After high school, Krause attended San Diego Christian College in Santee in suburban [[San Diego]], [[California]], where his basketball skills brought his team in his sophomore year to the Final 4 of the [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics]]. He carried both athletic and academic scholarship by the time he graduated. Thereafter, Krause, who had married the former Jennie Sue Napier while in college, enrolled and subsequently graduated in 2007 in the inaugural class of [[Jerry Falwell]]'s [[Liberty University]] School of Law in Lynchburg, [[Virginia]]. Krause worked on the ''Law Review'' and the moot court program and graduated third in his class.<ref name=ttribune/>
The Krauses are members of the Glenview Baptist Church in Fort Worth.<ref name=ttribune/>They have three children, Jeremiah (born 2007), Hannah Sue (born 2008), and James Reagan Krause (born 2012).<ref name=votesmart/>
==Political life==
After law school, Krause opened a Texas office of Liberty Counsel, a [[nonprofit organization]] devoted to the sanctity of human life, religious liberties, and the traditional family. It was this venture which brought the Krauses to Fort Worth. He became a precinct chairman for the Tarrant County Republican Party and worked to draw voters in both [[primary]] and [[general election]]s cycles. He is president of the Northwest Tarrant Republican Club. He also worked to cement the bond between the Republican Party and the [[Tea Party movement]].<ref name=ttribune/>
Krause first ran for the state House in District 99 in the 2010 Republican primary, when he was defeated by the long-term incumbent Charlie Geren, 8,037 votes (57.6 percent) to 5,915 (42.4 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 2, 2010 (House District 99).</ref>
In the May 29, 2012 Republican primary, Krause ran in his current District 93 against the one-term incumbent Barbara Parrish Nash (born c. 1944), a former school board and city council member in Arlington, Texas, and a third candidate, Patricia "Pat" Carlson. Krause won the nomination without need for a runoff election with 3,098 votes (50.7 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, May 29, 2012 (House District 92).</ref>
In 2010, Nash had unseated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Paula Pierson, by 431 votes, 49.3 percent to 47.6 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe|title=General election returns, November 2, 2010 (House District 92)|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=March 18, 2014}}</ref>
In the November 6, 2012 general election, Krause defeated the Democrat Shane Hardin and the [[Libertarian Party]] choice, Bruce Beckman. He polled 29,527 votes (58.9 percent) to Hardin's 18,797 (37.5 percent), and Beckman's 1,768 (3.5 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, General Election Returns, November 6, 2012 (House District 93).</ref>
Krause is a member of the House committees of (1) County Affairs and (2) Special Purpose Districts, the same assignments as his District 92 colleague, Jonathan Stickland]<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/117467/matt-krause#.UyjU28tOUfg|title=Matt Krause's Biography|publisher=votesmart.com|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref>
In March 2015, Krause introduced legislation known as the Unborn Child Due Process Act, which would clarify a legal provision in the Texas Advance Directives Act that forbids anyone from withholding or withdrawing treatment from a pregnant patient. The bill would permit the state to appoint an ad litem to represent the interest of the unborn child in situations where life-sustaining treatment of a pregnant patient is in jeopardy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/lsp-rep_-krause-unborn-child-due-process-act-032215_Dallas-Fort-Worth-297067101.html|title=Lone Star Politics: Unborn Child Due Process Act|publisher=[[NBC]] in Dallas-Fort Worth|accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref>
===Legislative positions===
A [[pro-life]] legislator, Krause supported in 2013 the ban on [[abortion]] after twenty weeks of gestation; the measure passed the House, 96-49. He co-sponsored companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers,<ref name=votingrecords/> a law that the opponents claim could shut down many abortion clinics. These issues brought forth an unsuccessful [[filibuster]] in the Texas State Senate by the Republican-turned-Democrat Wendy Russell of Fort Worth, who in 2014 as her party's nominee for [[governor]] was handily defeated by Republican [[Greg Abbott]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Filibuster in Texas Senate Tries to Halt Abortion Bill|author=M. Fernandez|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/senate-democrats-in-texas-try-blocking-abortion-bill-with-filibuster.html|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=June 26, 2013|accessdate=March 9, 2014}}</ref> The Texas [[Right to Life]] Committee rated Krause 87 percent favorable.<ref name=ratings/>
Krause voted against the legislation to establish a taxpayer-funded breakfast program for public schools; the popular measure nevertheless passed the House, 73-58. He co-sponsored legislation to provide marshals for school security as a separate law-enforcement entity. He voted for the extension of the franchise tax exemption to certain businesses, which passed the House 117-24. He voted against the adoption of the biennial 2013 state budget. He voted to require testing for [[narcotics]] of those individuals receiving unemployment compensation. Krause voted against the "equal pay for women" measure, which nevertheless passed the House, 78-61.<ref name=votingrecords/>
Krause sponsored the measure to forbid the state from engaging in the enforcement of federal regulations of firearms. He sponsored related legislation to permit college and university officials to |carry concealed weapons in the name of campus security. He voted to reduce the time required to obtain a concealed-carry permit in Texas. He backed the [[redistricting]] bills for the state House and Senate and the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He voted against term limits for certain state officials. He voted against the bill to prohibit texting while driving. In the name of election integrity, he voted for legislation to forbid one individual from turning in multiple ballots.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/117467/matt-krause|title=Matt Krause's Voting Records|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}</ref>
===Interest group ratings===
In 2013, [[Phyllis Schlafly]]'s [[Eagle Forum]], then managed in Texas by [[Cathie Adams]], a former state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, rated Krause 100 percent favorable; the Young Conservatives of Texas, 95 percent. The Texas League of Conservation Voters rated him 50 percent; a similar group, Environment Texas, rated him 37 percent. The interest group Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, founded by Michael Quinn Sullivan, rated him 100 percent. The Texas Association of Business scored Krause 73 percent. The [[National Rifle Association]] rated him 92 percent, based on candidate statements in 2012.<ref name=ratings>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/117467/matt-krause#.UykCLctOUfg|title=Matt Krause's Ratings and Endorsements|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=June 21, 2020}}</ref>
===Presidential endorsement===
In the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Krause supported [[U.S. Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]], who subsequently lost to [[Donald Trump]]. He endorsed conservative David Watts in the District 7 House race. Watts in 2014 had unsuccessfully opposed [[George P. Bush]] for the position of Texas General Land Office Commissioner.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krause, Matt}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Pro-Life]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]