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|preceded2=John Amos Longoria

|preceded2=John Amos Longoria

|succeeded2=David McQuade Leibowitz

|succeeded2=David McQuade Leibowitz

|birth_date=July 1955

|birth_date=July 1, 1955

|birth_place=[[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]

|birth_place=[[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]

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|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]

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'''Kenneth Broderick Mercer''', known as '''Ken Mercer''' (born July 1955), is a technology project manager and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] from his native [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. For one term from 2003 to 2005, he was the District 117 member of the Texas House of Representatives.<ref name=tlrl>{{cite web|url=

'''Kenneth Broderick Mercer''', known as '''Ken Mercer''' (born July 1, 1955), is a technology project manager and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] from his native [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. For one term from 2003 to 2005, he was the District 117 member of the Texas House of Representatives.<ref name=tlrl>{{cite web|url=

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Ken Mercer|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=February 22, 2016}}</ref> In 2006, he won the first of four terms on the elected Texas State Board of Education as the representative for District 5, which includes all of eleven counties plus portions of populous Bexar and Travis counties. He was not a candidate for re-nomination in the Republican [[primary]] held on March 3, 2020.

Ken Mercer|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=February 22, 2016}}</ref> In 2006, he won the first of four terms on the elected Texas State Board of Education as the representative for District 5, which includes all of eleven counties plus portions of populous Bexar and Travis counties. He was not a candidate for re-nomination in the Republican [[primary]] held on March 3, 2020.

Though he lost the [[Austin]] precincts, Mercer defeated Bell-Metereau in the overall District 5, 382,914 votes (49.6 percent) to 352,097 (45.6 percent). The remaining 36,412 ballots (4.7 percent) went to Ricardo Perkins, nominee of the [[Libertarian Party]]. Had the Libertarians voted for Bell-Metereau, she would have unseated Mercer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov08_319_state.htm|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 9, 2016}}</ref>

Though he lost the [[Austin]] precincts, Mercer defeated Bell-Metereau in the overall District 5, 382,914 votes (49.6 percent) to 352,097 (45.6 percent). The remaining 36,412 ballots (4.7 percent) went to Ricardo Perkins, nominee of the [[Libertarian Party]]. Had the Libertarians voted for Bell-Metereau, she would have unseated Mercer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov08_319_state.htm|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 9, 2016}}</ref>

Two Republican candidates, Robert Partlow Morrow (born 1964) of Austin and Lani Popp (born 1959), a public school speech pathologist from [[San Antonio]], met on May 26, 2020, when voters choose Popp as the nominee to succeed Mercer. Popp, however, was narrowly defeated b.in the November 3 general election by the same Democrat that Mercer had beaten in 2016, Rebecca Bell-Metereau. All ten Republicans on the SBOE  endorsed Popp, an unusual show of solidarity in a contested primary. Morrow briefly served as the Travis County GOP chairman, but when he declared himself a write-in candidate for U.S. President, he had to step down after three months as county chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20200312/gop-members-of-state-board-of-education-say-no-to-robert-morrow|title=GOP members of the State Board of Education say no to Robert Morrow|author=Julie Chang|publisher=''The Austin American-Statesman''|date=March 10, 2020|accessdate=March 15, 2020}}</ref> Morrow was succeeded by his Travis County predecessor, [[James Dickey]].

Two Republican candidates, Robert Partlow Morrow (born 1964) of Austin and Lani Popp (born 1959), a public school speech pathologist from [[San Antonio]], met on May 26, 2020, when voters choose Popp as the nominee to succeed Mercer. Popp, however, was narrowly defeated b.in the November 3 general election by the same Democrat that Mercer had beaten in 2016, Rebecca Bell-Metereau. All ten Republicans on the SBOE  endorsed Popp, an unusual show of solidarity in a contested primary. Morrow briefly served as the Travis County GOP chairman, but when he declared himself a write-in candidate for U.S. President, he had to step down after three months as county chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20200312/gop-members-of-state-board-of-education-say-no-to-robert-morrow|title=GOP members of the State Board of Education say no to Robert Morrow|author=Julie Chang|publisher=''The Austin American-Statesman''|date=March 10, 2020|accessdate=March 15, 2020}}</ref> Morrow was succeeded as chairman by his Travis County predecessor, [[James Dickey]].

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