Dan Flynn

Dan Flynn (born February 21, 1943) is a businessman and rancher from Van,Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 2 (Hunt, Rains, and Van Zandt counties).

In December 2008, Flynn attracted statewide attention when he introduced legislation which would have mandated that public documents be only in English.

In 2010, Flynn served as the vice chairman of the House Committee on Financial Institutions. That same year, Flynn served on the House Committee on State Affairs.

Late in 2010, Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola in Wood County claimed that Larry Phillips, a lawmaker from Sherman in north Texas, told Hughes that Flynn and Erwin Cain, the newly-elected conservative representative from Sulphur Springs, would be significantly redistricted for the primary election on March 6, 2012, because they had declined to commit to the second-term reelection of Texas House SpeakerJoe Straus, a moderate Republican from San Antonio. In a hearing before the House Ethics Committee, chaired by another East Texas representative, Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville, an ally of Speaker Straus, Phillips denied having made such a claim to Hughes. Neither Hughes nor Phillips taped the conversation. No judgment was rendered by the committee because of the lack of corroborating witnesses.