Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Barry Thomas Smitherman (born 1957) is the chairman, and one of three current members, of the Texas Railroad Commission. A Republican, he was appointed to the commission on July 8, 2011 by Governor Rick Perry to fill a vacant post, and on February 28, 2012 he was elected chairman of the commission, which regulates not railroads but the Texas oil and gas industry.In 2013, Smitherman announced his candidacy to succeed Greg Abbott as state attorney general in the Republican primary election held on March 4, 2014, when Abbott polled 91.5 percent of the ballots cast to win the party's nomination for governor to succeed the retiring Rick Perry, who declined to seek a fourth full term. Smitherman's opponents were State Senator Ken Paxton of McKinney in Collin County and State Representative Dan Branch of Dallas County.Smitherman finished in third place with 281,064 votes (22.1 percent) in the attorney general's race, but his voters, depending on overall turnout, could be critical to the outcome of the runoff election on May 27 between the leading votegetter, Ken Paxton, and the runner-up, Dan Branch.. }
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- Barry_Smitherman abstract "Barry Thomas Smitherman (born 1957) is the chairman, and one of three current members, of the Texas Railroad Commission. A Republican, he was appointed to the commission on July 8, 2011 by Governor Rick Perry to fill a vacant post, and on February 28, 2012 he was elected chairman of the commission, which regulates not railroads but the Texas oil and gas industry.In 2013, Smitherman announced his candidacy to succeed Greg Abbott as state attorney general in the Republican primary election held on March 4, 2014, when Abbott polled 91.5 percent of the ballots cast to win the party's nomination for governor to succeed the retiring Rick Perry, who declined to seek a fourth full term. Smitherman's opponents were State Senator Ken Paxton of McKinney in Collin County and State Representative Dan Branch of Dallas County.Smitherman finished in third place with 281,064 votes (22.1 percent) in the attorney general's race, but his voters, depending on overall turnout, could be critical to the outcome of the runoff election on May 27 between the leading votegetter, Ken Paxton, and the runner-up, Dan Branch.".