Lloyd Doggett

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Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas since 1995. A member of the Democratic Party , Doggett was a member of the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985 and a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1989 to 1994. Doggett represents the same district President Lyndon B. Johnson once represented from 1937 until 1949.

He is the dean of Texas's congressional delegation ; he previously shared the deanship with Sheila Jackson Lee until her death in 2024. Doggett was the first sitting Democratic congressperson after the CNN presidential debate to call on Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race . On August 21, 2025, he announced that he would not run for re-election in 2026 if Texas's then-planned new congressional map was in effect for the 2026 elections .

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Early career

• 3 U.S. House of Representatives

  • 3.1 Elections

  • 3.2 Tenure

  • 3.3 Political positions

    • 3.3.1 Abortion

    • 3.3.2 Environment

    • 3.3.3 Gay rights

    • 3.3.4 Taxes

    • 3.3.5 Energy

    • 3.3.6 Health care

    • 3.3.7 Criticism of healthcare opponents

    • 3.3.8 Immigration

    • 3.3.9 Iraq

    • 3.3.10 Education

    • 3.3.11 Other social service issues

    • 3.3.12 Trump administration

    • 3.3.13 Syria

    • 3.3.14 Israel

  • 3.4 Committee assignments

  • 3.5 Caucus memberships

• 4 Electoral history

• 5 Personal life

• 6 References

• 7 External links

Early life and education

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Doggett was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Alyce Paulin (Freydenfeldt) and Lloyd Alton Doggett. His maternal grandparents were Swedish. Doggett graduated Omicron Delta Kappa and received both a bachelor's degree in business administration and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas at Austin , where he served as student body president his senior year. While attending the University of Texas at Austin , he also joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Early career

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Doggett served as a member of the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985. He gained attention in 1979 as a member of the "Killer Bees ", a group of 12 Democratic state senators who opposed a plan to move the state's presidential primary to March 11. The intent was to give former Texas Governor John Connally a leg up on the 1980 Republican nomination. The Killer Bees wanted a closed primary . When this proposal was rejected, they walked out of the chamber and left the Senate two members short of a quorum . The bill was withdrawn five days later.

He was the Democratic nominee for the 1984 United States Senate election in Texas , losing to the Republican candidate, then-U.S. Representative Phil Gramm , by a wide margin. Doggett authored the bill creating the Texas Commission on Human Rights, as well as a law outlawing cop killer bullets and a sunset law requiring periodic review of government agencies.

In 1989, Doggett became both an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law .

U.S. House of Representatives

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Doggett with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore at Netroots Nation 2008

Elections

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Before 2012

Doggett was elected to the House of Representatives in in what was then the 10th district after 32-year incumbent [Jake Pickle](https://en.

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