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Ron Givens
Ronald Dean Givens, known as Ron Givens (born March 17, 1952), is a real estate agent from Lubbock, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 83. Elected to the first of his two terms in 1984, Givens was the first African American Republican member of the state House since the Reconstruction era.〔"New Lubbock legislator Givens optimistic about new session: Givens the first black Republican legislator in 103 years", ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'', January 7, 1985〕
==Background==
Givens graduated from the historically black Dunbar-Struggs High School in Lubbock; the institution, an entity of the Lubbock Independent School District, closed in 1993 and became a junior high school. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the historically black Huston-Tillotson University in the state capital city of Austin. His father, R. J. Givens, Jr., also graduated from the then Huston-Tillotson College. His mother, the former Octavia Middleton, graduated from Peoples Business College in Austin. R. J. and Octavia Givens founded Givens Real Estate in Lubbock. R. J. also worked for thirty-two years for the U.S. Post Office in Lubbock and became the first black to serve on the editorial board of the ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''. Mrs. Givens in 1965 was named the first black cashier of what became Excel Energy in Lubbock. In 1970, she became the first black female affiliated with the Lubbock Association of Realtors; in 1974, she founded Givens Employment Agency in Lubbock.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Event Honorees )〕
Givens attributed his interest in public affairs in part to one of his Huston-Tillotson professors, Harriet Murphy, who "insisted that all of her students go into the community to work in some part of government." Givens set his interest in the Texas House, which he visited as a high school junior as part of the 1969 Boys State convention. The House is within walking distance of Huston-Tillotson.〔
Givens did substitute teaching and served a stint in the United States Army before he launched his brief political career in Lubbock.〔
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