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| − | '''Walter Thomas Price, IV,''' (born 1968), known as '''Four Price''' because he is the fourth generation in his family to bear the name Walter Thomas Price,<ref name=price>{{cite web|url=http://www.fourprice.org/|title=Vote Four Price|publisher=fourprice.org|accessdate=July 9. 2010}}</ref> is an attorney from [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]], [[Texas]], who is the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for the District 87 seat in the [[Texas House of Representatives]] in the [[general election]] pending on November 2, 2010. The position will be vacated in January 2011 by the long-term incumbent David Swinford, a Republican from [Dumas in Moore County who did not seek reelection. | + | '''Walter Thomas Price, IV,''' (born 1968), known as '''Four Price''' because he is the fourth generation in his family to bear the name Walter Thomas Price,<ref name=price>{{cite web|url=http://www.fourprice.org/|title=Vote Four Price|publisher=fourprice.org|accessdate=July 9. 2010}}</ref> is an attorney from Amarillo, [[Texas]], who is the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for the District 87 seat in the Texas House of Representatives in the [[general election]] pending on November 2, 2010. The position will be vacated in January 2011 by the long-term incumbent David Swinford, a Republican from [Dumas in Moore County who did not seek reelection. |
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| − | Price graduated in 1986 from Tascosa High School in Amarillo. He holds a [[Bachelor of Business Administration]] degree from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Juris Doctor]] from St. Mary's University School of Law in [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]]. He and his wife, the former Karen Diane Mayfield (born ca. 1964), have four children, Brooke, Cody, Abby, and Curry, ranging in ages (as of 2010) from nineteen to eleven, respectively.<ref name=price/> | + | Price graduated in 1986 from Tascosa High School in Amarillo. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Juris Doctor]] from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. He and his wife, the former Karen Diane Mayfield (born ca. 1964), have four children, Brooke, Cody, Abby, and Curry, ranging in ages (as of 2010) from nineteen to eleven, respectively.<ref name=price/> |
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| − | Price advocates the placing of government "on a diet. It doesn't tax too little -- it just spends too much." If elected, he vows to bring the "voice of the Panhandle" to state government. His familial roots in the Texas Panhandle date to 1917, when his maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Benjamin Latham, settled his young family in [[Carson County, Texas|Carson County]] before relocating to Amarillo.<ref name=price/> | + | Price advocates the placing of government "on a diet. It doesn't tax too little -- it just spends too much." If elected, he vows to bring the "voice of the Panhandle" to state government. His familial roots in the Texas Panhandle date to 1917, when his maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Benjamin Latham, settled his young family in Carson County before relocating to Amarillo.<ref name=price/> |
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| − | Price practices business and [[probate]] law with the Amarillo firm Irwin, Merritt, Hogue, Price & Carthel, P.C. He previously practiced with Mullin, Hoard & Brown LLP in Amarillo and with [[Fulbright & Jaworski]] in San Antonio. Price is a director of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, president of the Amarillo Area Bar Association, and a director of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation. He is a member and former deacon of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Amarillo. A former director of the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, he is also a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association. Price is an avid outdoorsman.<ref name=price/> | + | Price practices business and [[probate]] law with the Amarillo firm Irwin, Merritt, Hogue, Price & Carthel, P.C. He previously practiced with Mullin, Hoard & Brown LLP in Amarillo and with Fulbright & Jaworski in San Antonio. Price is a director of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, president of the Amarillo Area Bar Association, and a director of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Foundation. He is a member and former deacon of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Amarillo. A former director of the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, he is also a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association. Price is an avid outdoorsman.<ref name=price/> |
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