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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Matthew F. "Matt" Shaheen
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption =
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| office= [[Texas]] State Representative<br> for District 66 (Collin County)
| term_start=January 13, 2015
| term_end=
| preceded=[[Van Taylor]]
| succeeded=
| office2=Precinct 1 Commissioner for Collin County, Texas
| term_start2=
| term_end2=December 2013
| preceded2=
| succeeded2=Mark Reid
| birth_date=1965
| death_date=
| birth_place=City missing, [[Virginia]]
| occupation=Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services executive
| residence=[[Plano, Texas|Plano]], Texas
| spouse= Robyn Mathis Shaheen
| alma_mater=Randolph-Macon College<br>
[[Southern Methodist University]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]}}
'''Matthew F. Shaheen''', known as '''Matt Shaheen''' (born 1965), is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 66 in [[Plano, Texas|Plano]] in Collin County north of [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].
==Biography==
A native of [[Virginia]], Shaheen received a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland near the capital city of [[Richmond]], at which he received All Conference honors through the Old Dominion Athletic Conference as a player on the college Yellow Jackets [[football]] team. Shaheen also holds a master's degree from [[Southern Methodist University]] in University Park, Texas. Texas.<ref name=mfshaheen>{{cite web|url=http://vote-tx.org/Intro.aspx?State=TX&Id=TXShaheenMatt|title=Biographical Profile for Matt Shaheen|publisher=vote-tx.org|accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref>
Since 2004, he has been a technology and management consulting executive, with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services.<ref name=mfshaheen/>
Shaheen is a [[deacon]] at the large Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano and directs a [[Bible]] study for inmates in the Collin County jail.<ref name=mfshaheen/>
==Political life==
Shaheen is the former Precinct 1 commissioner for Collin County, one of four legislative positions in county government which encompasses North Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, and northwestern McKinney, Texas. As a county commissioner, he served on the Texas Conference of Urban Counties Policy Committee and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department Advisory Committee. Then [[Governor]] [[Rick Perry]] named him to the Texas State Board of Social Workers, for which he was chairman of the board's Professional Development Committee and a member of the Ethics Committee.<ref name=mfshaheen/> He has also served on the Plano Community Relations Commission.
A past election judge, precinct chairman, and delegate to Republican state conventions, Shaheen is the founding chairman of the political action committee, the Reagan Conservative Society. He is a member of the Collin County Republican Men's Club.<ref name=mfshaheen/>
Shaheen won the Republican nomination for the District 66 House seat in a runoff election on May 27, 2014, with his intraparty rival, lawyer and businessman Glenn Brian Callison (born 1963), also of Plano, 54 to 46 percent. The district encompasses most of West Plano and parts of North Dallas. In that same primary, Susan Fletcher unseated Mark Reid, the Precinct 1 commissioner, who was appointed in December 2013 to succeed Shaheen, when he stepped down to make the state House race.<ref name=starlocal>{{cite web|url=http://starlocalmedia.com/allenamerican/news/fletcher-shaheen-win-in-collin-county-republican-primary-updated/article_30ca83b4-e5fc-11e3-ab4c-001a4bcf887a.html|title=Fletcher, Shaheen win in Collin County Republican primary|date=May 28, 2014|publisher=starlocalmedia.com|accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref>Shaheen, with no [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] opponent, then defeated the [[Libertarian Party]] candidate, Ian Michael Santorella (born 1980), also of Plano, in the November 4 [[general election]]. The departing representative, Republican [[Van Taylor]], succeeded state Senator [[Ken Paxton]] of McKinney, the state attorney general.<ref name=starlocal/>
==References==
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[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
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[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
| name=Matthew F. "Matt" Shaheen
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption =
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| office= [[Texas]] State Representative<br> for District 66 (Collin County)
| term_start=January 13, 2015
| term_end=
| preceded=[[Van Taylor]]
| succeeded=
| office2=Precinct 1 Commissioner for Collin County, Texas
| term_start2=
| term_end2=December 2013
| preceded2=
| succeeded2=Mark Reid
| birth_date=1965
| death_date=
| birth_place=City missing, [[Virginia]]
| occupation=Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services executive
| residence=[[Plano, Texas|Plano]], Texas
| spouse= Robyn Mathis Shaheen
| alma_mater=Randolph-Macon College<br>
[[Southern Methodist University]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]}}
'''Matthew F. Shaheen''', known as '''Matt Shaheen''' (born 1965), is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 66 in [[Plano, Texas|Plano]] in Collin County north of [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].
==Biography==
A native of [[Virginia]], Shaheen received a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland near the capital city of [[Richmond]], at which he received All Conference honors through the Old Dominion Athletic Conference as a player on the college Yellow Jackets [[football]] team. Shaheen also holds a master's degree from [[Southern Methodist University]] in University Park, Texas. Texas.<ref name=mfshaheen>{{cite web|url=http://vote-tx.org/Intro.aspx?State=TX&Id=TXShaheenMatt|title=Biographical Profile for Matt Shaheen|publisher=vote-tx.org|accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref>
Since 2004, he has been a technology and management consulting executive, with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services.<ref name=mfshaheen/>
Shaheen is a [[deacon]] at the large Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano and directs a [[Bible]] study for inmates in the Collin County jail.<ref name=mfshaheen/>
==Political life==
Shaheen is the former Precinct 1 commissioner for Collin County, one of four legislative positions in county government which encompasses North Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, and northwestern McKinney, Texas. As a county commissioner, he served on the Texas Conference of Urban Counties Policy Committee and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department Advisory Committee. Then [[Governor]] [[Rick Perry]] named him to the Texas State Board of Social Workers, for which he was chairman of the board's Professional Development Committee and a member of the Ethics Committee.<ref name=mfshaheen/> He has also served on the Plano Community Relations Commission.
A past election judge, precinct chairman, and delegate to Republican state conventions, Shaheen is the founding chairman of the political action committee, the Reagan Conservative Society. He is a member of the Collin County Republican Men's Club.<ref name=mfshaheen/>
Shaheen won the Republican nomination for the District 66 House seat in a runoff election on May 27, 2014, with his intraparty rival, lawyer and businessman Glenn Brian Callison (born 1963), also of Plano, 54 to 46 percent. The district encompasses most of West Plano and parts of North Dallas. In that same primary, Susan Fletcher unseated Mark Reid, the Precinct 1 commissioner, who was appointed in December 2013 to succeed Shaheen, when he stepped down to make the state House race.<ref name=starlocal>{{cite web|url=http://starlocalmedia.com/allenamerican/news/fletcher-shaheen-win-in-collin-county-republican-primary-updated/article_30ca83b4-e5fc-11e3-ab4c-001a4bcf887a.html|title=Fletcher, Shaheen win in Collin County Republican primary|date=May 28, 2014|publisher=starlocalmedia.com|accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref>Shaheen, with no [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] opponent, then defeated the [[Libertarian Party]] candidate, Ian Michael Santorella (born 1980), also of Plano, in the November 4 [[general election]]. The departing representative, Republican [[Van Taylor]], succeeded state Senator [[Ken Paxton]] of McKinney, the state attorney general.<ref name=starlocal/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaheen, Matt}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]