Texas |
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| Area | 268,820 sq mi |
| Population | 24,782,302 |
| Major Cities and their Mayors | Houston 2,242,193 Annise Parker |
| Major Industries | Petroleum and natural gas, farming (cotton, livestock), steel, banking, insurance, tourism |
| State Capitol (Seat of government) | Austin |
| Governor | Rick Perry |
| U.S. Senators | Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) John Cornyn (R) |
| U.S. House of Representatives | Louie Gohmert (R), Ted Poe (R) |
| Secretary of State | Hope Andrade |
| Attorney General | Greg Abbott |
| State Assembly Representatives |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_House_of_Representatives |
| State Counties | Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dallam, Dallas, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Delta, Denton, DeWitt, Dickens, Dimmit, Donley, Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, El Paso, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gaines, Galveston, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Goliad, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hardin, Harris, Harrison, Hartley, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth, Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, La Salle, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, Leon,Liberty, Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Madison, Marion, Martin, Mason, Matagorda, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Montague, Montgomery, Moore, Morris, Motley, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Nolan, Nueces, Ochiltree, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Panola, Parker, Parmer, Pecos, Polk, Potter, Presidio, Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Refugio, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine,\San Jacinto, San Patricio, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Shelby, Sherman, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Tarra, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Titus, Tom Green, Travis, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Ward, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Wood, Yoakum, Young, Zapata, Zavala |
| State Supreme Court | Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson, |
| Major Newspapers | Associated Press (AP) Dallas Texas |
| Major television networks | Houston KHOU TV 11 (CBS) |
| Local issues | Illegal immigration |
| Landmarks/images | The Alamo, originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound, site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and now a museum, in San Antonio, Texas. NASA's Mission Control Center (MCC-H), also known by its callsign, Houston, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas manages all manned space flight of NASA, including the U.S. portions of the International Space Station (ISS). From the moment a spacecraft clears its launch tower until it lands on earth, it is in the hands of Mission Control. Dealey Plaza Historic District: Site of Kennedy assassination and surrounding buildings that are rumored to have held additional assassins. Fort Sam Houston is a U.S. Army post in San Antonio, Texas.[3] Known colloquially as "Fort Sam," it is named for the first President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston. USS Lexington: Essex-class aircraft carrier; fifth United States Naval ship named in honor of the Revolutionary War Battle of Lexington The State Capitol is Austin's most prominent landmark and dominates downtown Austin, with its glittering pink Texas granite. Austin's State Capitol building has the aptly named Capitol Complex Visitors Centre, Texas's oldest surviving office building, as its neighbor. |
| 2010 Senate and House races | [To be posted] |
| Download call sheet | You can download a call sheet for your praye/spiritual work, when you sign up to adopt a state. (It's free) |
| Download fact sheet | You can download this fact sheet when you adopt the state. |
| Visualizations | You can have access to view some visualizations online, when you sign up to adopt a state. There are also two DVDs you can purchase with higher quality video visualizations of all the U.S. States that you can use in your services and prayer work. |
