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The community is heavily [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in voter orientation though two [[Republican Party|Republicans]], [[Jack Vowell]] and [[Pat Haggerty]], represented El Paso County in the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995 and 1995 to 2009, respectively.
The community is heavily [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in voter orientation though two [[Republican Party|Republicans]], [[Jack Vowell]] and [[Pat Haggerty]], represented El Paso County in the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995 and 1995 to 2009, respectively.
It is home to The University of Texas at El Paso, which despite not having tremendous athletic success has had two notable accomplishments:
*The 1966 men's basketball team (when the school was known as Texas Western) became the first team of all-black players to win the NCAA championship, defeating an all-white Kentucky powerhouse team in the process (as of 2019 it remains the only Texas university to win the men's basketball title)
*Bob Beamon, who later set the world record in the long jump at the 1968 Olympics (by nearly two feet over the prior record, due in large part to Mexico City's thin air at high altitude), was on the track team
[[Category:Texas Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Texas Cities and Towns]]