List of University of North Texas alumni

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The following is a list of people who have attended or taught at the University of North Texas.

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Government and public service[]

  • Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs since 29 April 2015. He was the former ambassador to Washington, former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia
  • Dick Armey, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26, which includes UNT, former economics professor and department chair at UNT
  • , Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927-1929); Attorney General of Texas (1929-1930); state court judge (1935-1937); chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937-1943)[7]
  • Michael C. Burgess, current U.S. representative for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT
  • Konni Burton, Texas State Senator as of 2015
  • , Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1962; Houston oilfield equipment industrialist
  • (Class of 2021), Business Marketing Major Whizz, All around amazing person
  • Tony Goolsby (Class of 1961), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County from 1989 to 2009[8]
  • Warren G. Harding, former Texas State Treasurer (1977-1983) and Dallas County Treasurer (1950-1977); former President of North Texas State University.
  • Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
  • Joseph L. Lengyel, General, U.S. Air Force; Chief, National Guard Bureau
  • Clint Lorance (born 1984), Army officer convicted of second-degree murder for battlefield deaths; pardoned
  • Diane Patrick (Class of 1969 and 1999, M.A. and Ph.D.), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington; former faculty member in education[9]
  • Ray Roberts, former Congressman from Denton; namesake of nearby Lake Ray Roberts
  • Gwyn Shea, former Texas secretary of state (2002-2003) and a member of the Texas House of Representatives (1983-1993) from Irving; UNT regent since 2007
  • Drew Springer, Jr., state representative from District 68 in North Texas and the eastern South Plains[10]
  • Barbara Staff, co-chairman of the 1976 Texas Ronald Reagan presidential primary campaign[11]

References[]

  1. ^ "Texas Tech Baseball" (PDF). Grfx.cstv.com. p. 129. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  2. ^ Barnes, Michael (December 4, 2017). "Texas artist Gerald Harvey Jones painted Americana". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  3. ^ "William Jackson Adkins". wikitree.com. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  4. ^ "California Death Index, 1940-1997". FamilySearch. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. ^ Stanley, Autumn (1995). Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 387. ISBN 978-0813521978. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Juan L. Maldonado" (PDF). senate.state.tx.us. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  7. ^ "Robert Lee Bobbitt". freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
  8. ^ "State Representative Tony Goolsby" (PDF). lrl.state.tx.us. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  9. ^ "Diane Patrick's Biography". votesmart.org. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  10. ^ "Weatherford grad takes his seat as state legislator, February 1, 2013". Weatherford Democrat. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  11. ^ Julia Sweeney, "Barbara Staff picks GOP over Jamaica," the defunct Dallas Times Herald, August 20, 1976, p. E3
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