| | '''James Roy Dickey''' (born November 23, 1966) has been since 2017 the chairman of the [[Texas]] [[Republican Party]]. A [[conservative]] from the [[liberal]] capital city of [[Austin]], Dickey had scored record fund-raising and excelled at candidate recruitment. An [[insurance]] agent, he is also the past chairman of the Travis County (Austin) Republican Party. | | '''James Roy Dickey''' (born November 23, 1966) has been since 2017 the chairman of the [[Texas]] [[Republican Party]]. A [[conservative]] from the [[liberal]] capital city of [[Austin]], Dickey had scored record fund-raising and excelled at candidate recruitment. An [[insurance]] agent, he is also the past chairman of the Travis County (Austin) Republican Party. |
| | Dickey (place of birth missing) graduated from Polytechnic High School in [[Fort Worth]] and then [[Stanford University]] in Palo Alto, [[California]], at which he earned a degree in [[political science]] and [[English]]. He then obtained a [[Master of Business Administration]] degree from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas, a [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated institution.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/jamesrdickey|title=James Dickey|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 29, 2018}}</ref> Dickey and his wife of nearly thirty years, Lynda, reside west of Austin in Spicewood in Burnet County in the Texas Hill Country. They have three children.<ref name=facebook/>Dickey has previously resided in [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], Bloomfield, [[Connecticut]], and [[Dallas]] , [[Plano]], and Austin, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/James-R-Dickey/Spicewood-TX|title=James R. Dickey - Spicewood, Texas|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=May 29, 2018}}</ref> | | Dickey (place of birth missing) graduated from Polytechnic High School in [[Fort Worth]] and then [[Stanford University]] in Palo Alto, [[California]], at which he earned a degree in [[political science]] and [[English]]. He then obtained a [[Master of Business Administration]] degree from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas, a [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated institution.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/jamesrdickey|title=James Dickey|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 29, 2018}}</ref> Dickey and his wife of nearly thirty years, Lynda, reside west of Austin in Spicewood in Burnet County in the Texas Hill Country. They have three children.<ref name=facebook/>Dickey has previously resided in [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], Bloomfield, [[Connecticut]], and [[Dallas]] , [[Plano]], and Austin, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/James-R-Dickey/Spicewood-TX|title=James R. Dickey - Spicewood, Texas|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=May 29, 2018}}</ref> |