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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Stuart Keith Spitzer, M.D.
| image=Stuart Spitzer of TX.jpg
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Texas]] State Representative<br> for District 4 (Kaufman andf Henderson counties)]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 13, 2015
| term_end= January 10, 2017
| preceded=[[Lance Gooden]]
| succeeded=Lance Gooden
| birth_date=Sepember 11, 1967
| death_date=
| death_place=
| resting_place=
| birth_place=Athens, Henderson County<br>Texas, USA
| occupation=[[Surgeon]]
| residence=Kaufman, Texas
| spouse=Shari Jo Knight Spitzer
| children=Lilly and Luke Spitzer
| religion=[[Christianity|Christian]]
| alma_mater=Athens High School<br>
Trinity Valley Community College<br>
[[Baylor University]]<br>
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center}}
'''Stuart Keith Spitzer''' (born September 11, 1967) is a general surgeon from Kaufman, [[Texas]], who served a single two-year term from 2015 to 2017 as a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 4, which encompasses Kaufman and Henderson counties<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stuart-spitzer/stuart_spitzer?fname=stuart&lname=spitzer&|title=Stuart Spitzer (Keith)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 6, 2021}}</ref> east of [[Dallas]].
==Background==
Spitzer was born and reared in Athens in Henderson County in East Texas, where his parents still reside. Spitzer recalls as a youth having mowed baseball fields in the day and umpiring [[softball]] games at night. He helped a grandfather to plow [[cotton]] fields and [[Hunting|hunted]] and [[Fishing|fished]] on a family ranch in Central Texas. "From this upbringing, I learned respect for [[God]], the outdoors, others, and a hard day's work," he said.<ref name=sspitzer/>
Spitzer graduated from Athens High School and Trinity Valley Community College in Athens. He then obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas, and his [[M.D.]] degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
Spitzer and his wife, the former Shari Jo Knight (born 1969), have two children, Lilly and Luke.<ref name=sspitzer>{{cite web|url=http://stuartspitzer.com/about-stuart/#faith|title=About Stuart Spitzer|publisher=stuartspitzer.com|accessdate=December 3, 2014}}</ref>.
==Political life==
In 2012, Spitzer ran for the House but lost the party nomination to the then incumbent [[Lance Gooden]]. Spitzer polled 5,545 votes (46.5 percent) to Gooden's 6,385 votes (53.5 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, May 29, 2012.</ref> Gooden was then unopposed in the November 6, 2012 [[general election]] for his second term as a state representative.
In his second bid for the office on March 4, 2014, Dr. Spitzer unseated Gooden in the Republican primary. Spitzer polled 8,421 votes (51 percent) to Gooden's 8,079 (49 percent).<ref>Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014.</ref> [[Speaker]] [[Joe Straus]] of [[San Antonio]] made a campaign stop for Gooden's behalf in Forney in Kaufman County, a month before the primary election. Accompanying Straus to Forney was state Senator [[Bob Deuell]], a [[pediatrician]] from Greenville] in Hunt County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forneypost.net/Story.aspx?ArticleID=2984|author=Denise Be|title=Texas Speaker of the House Straus Visits Forney to Endorse Rep. Gooden|date=February 4, 2014|publisher=''The Forney Post''|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}</ref> A few weeks later Duell was himself unseated in the May 27 runoff election by the [[Tea Party]] movement choice, Bob Hall of Van Zandt County.
Spitzer lost a rematch with Lance Gooden in the Republican primary on March 1, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.texasgop.org/filing-period/|title=2016 Filed Primary Candidates|publisher=texasgop.org|accessdate=December 28, 2015}}</ref> Gooden polled 14,500 votes (51.8 percent) to Spitzer's 13,502 (48.2 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 1, 2016.</ref> In 2020, Gooden, a staunch supporter of former [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]] was elected for his second term to the District 5 seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]].
Spitzer was a sponsor of a [http://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/dr-spitzer-may-abstain-but-teens-in-his-district-dont/] budget amendment seeking to remove $3 million from the state's [[HIV]] prevention services and adding the funds to teach abstinence-only education. Spitzer cited his [[Christian]] belief that everyone should remain abstinent from sexual activity until marriage. During floor debate in the Texas House of Representatives, Spitzer claimed to have been abstinent until marriage at the age of twenty-nine and that he believed abstinence is the only way to prevent pregnancy and [[STD]] infection.<ref>http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-house-strips-3-mil-from-hiv-prevention-to-promote-abstinence-is-incredibly-dumb-7134777</ref><ref>https://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/31/abstinence-funding-devolves-uncomfortable-debate/</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Christians]]
| name=Stuart Keith Spitzer, M.D.
| image=Stuart Spitzer of TX.jpg
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Texas]] State Representative<br> for District 4 (Kaufman andf Henderson counties)]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 13, 2015
| term_end= January 10, 2017
| preceded=[[Lance Gooden]]
| succeeded=Lance Gooden
| birth_date=Sepember 11, 1967
| death_date=
| death_place=
| resting_place=
| birth_place=Athens, Henderson County<br>Texas, USA
| occupation=[[Surgeon]]
| residence=Kaufman, Texas
| spouse=Shari Jo Knight Spitzer
| children=Lilly and Luke Spitzer
| religion=[[Christianity|Christian]]
| alma_mater=Athens High School<br>
Trinity Valley Community College<br>
[[Baylor University]]<br>
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center}}
'''Stuart Keith Spitzer''' (born September 11, 1967) is a general surgeon from Kaufman, [[Texas]], who served a single two-year term from 2015 to 2017 as a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 4, which encompasses Kaufman and Henderson counties<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stuart-spitzer/stuart_spitzer?fname=stuart&lname=spitzer&|title=Stuart Spitzer (Keith)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 6, 2021}}</ref> east of [[Dallas]].
==Background==
Spitzer was born and reared in Athens in Henderson County in East Texas, where his parents still reside. Spitzer recalls as a youth having mowed baseball fields in the day and umpiring [[softball]] games at night. He helped a grandfather to plow [[cotton]] fields and [[Hunting|hunted]] and [[Fishing|fished]] on a family ranch in Central Texas. "From this upbringing, I learned respect for [[God]], the outdoors, others, and a hard day's work," he said.<ref name=sspitzer/>
Spitzer graduated from Athens High School and Trinity Valley Community College in Athens. He then obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas, and his [[M.D.]] degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
Spitzer and his wife, the former Shari Jo Knight (born 1969), have two children, Lilly and Luke.<ref name=sspitzer>{{cite web|url=http://stuartspitzer.com/about-stuart/#faith|title=About Stuart Spitzer|publisher=stuartspitzer.com|accessdate=December 3, 2014}}</ref>.
==Political life==
In 2012, Spitzer ran for the House but lost the party nomination to the then incumbent [[Lance Gooden]]. Spitzer polled 5,545 votes (46.5 percent) to Gooden's 6,385 votes (53.5 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, May 29, 2012.</ref> Gooden was then unopposed in the November 6, 2012 [[general election]] for his second term as a state representative.
In his second bid for the office on March 4, 2014, Dr. Spitzer unseated Gooden in the Republican primary. Spitzer polled 8,421 votes (51 percent) to Gooden's 8,079 (49 percent).<ref>Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014.</ref> [[Speaker]] [[Joe Straus]] of [[San Antonio]] made a campaign stop for Gooden's behalf in Forney in Kaufman County, a month before the primary election. Accompanying Straus to Forney was state Senator [[Bob Deuell]], a [[pediatrician]] from Greenville] in Hunt County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forneypost.net/Story.aspx?ArticleID=2984|author=Denise Be|title=Texas Speaker of the House Straus Visits Forney to Endorse Rep. Gooden|date=February 4, 2014|publisher=''The Forney Post''|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}</ref> A few weeks later Duell was himself unseated in the May 27 runoff election by the [[Tea Party]] movement choice, Bob Hall of Van Zandt County.
Spitzer lost a rematch with Lance Gooden in the Republican primary on March 1, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.texasgop.org/filing-period/|title=2016 Filed Primary Candidates|publisher=texasgop.org|accessdate=December 28, 2015}}</ref> Gooden polled 14,500 votes (51.8 percent) to Spitzer's 13,502 (48.2 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 1, 2016.</ref> In 2020, Gooden, a staunch supporter of former [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]] was elected for his second term to the District 5 seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]].
Spitzer was a sponsor of a [http://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/dr-spitzer-may-abstain-but-teens-in-his-district-dont/] budget amendment seeking to remove $3 million from the state's [[HIV]] prevention services and adding the funds to teach abstinence-only education. Spitzer cited his [[Christian]] belief that everyone should remain abstinent from sexual activity until marriage. During floor debate in the Texas House of Representatives, Spitzer claimed to have been abstinent until marriage at the age of twenty-nine and that he believed abstinence is the only way to prevent pregnancy and [[STD]] infection.<ref>http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-house-strips-3-mil-from-hiv-prevention-to-promote-abstinence-is-incredibly-dumb-7134777</ref><ref>https://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/31/abstinence-funding-devolves-uncomfortable-debate/</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spitzer, Stuart}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Christians]]