Editing Waco, Texas (section)

===Politics===
* [[Kip Averitt]], [[Texas State Senate|State senator]] from [[Texas Senate, District 22|District 22]] from 2002 to 2010,<ref>{{cite web |title=Kip Averitt |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/5470/kip-averitt#.UgWIzPmTjrM |publisher=Vote Smart.com |access-date=August 10, 2013 }}</ref> and [[Texas House of Representatives|State Representative]] from [[Texas House of Representatives, District 56|District 56]] from 1994 to 2002, and currently is a lobbyist
* [[Joe Barton]], former US congressman representing Texas's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019, was born and reared in Waco<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Joe Barton |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000213 |dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=August 10, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Leon Jaworski]], who prosecuted Nazi war criminals during the [[Nuremberg trials]] and then was the [[special prosecutor]] who brought down the [[Nixon administration]] during the [[Watergate scandal]], was born and raised in Waco
* [[Charles Matthews (Texas politician)|Charles R. Matthews]], former mayor of [[Garland, Texas|Garland]], Texas, member of the [[Texas Railroad Commission]], and chancellor of the [[Texas State University System]], is a Waco native<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/10222/tsl-10222.html#series5 |title=Railroad Commission of Texas: An Inventory of Railroad Commission Commissioners Records at the Texas State Archives, 1898–1901, 1906–1908, 1916, 1920–1967, 1978–1980, 1997–2005, undated, bulk about 1930 – about 1960 |last=Texas |first=Railroad Commission of |website=legacy.lib.utexas.edu |language=en |access-date=February 1, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[Lyndon Lowell Olson Jr.]], former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden under President Bill Clinton, was born and raised in Waco
* [[William R. Poage]], US Congressman who represented Texas's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1978, was born in Waco
* [[Ann Richards]], former [[governor of Texas]] and keynote speaker at the [[1988 Democratic National Convention]], was born in the Waco suburb of [[Lacy Lakeview, Texas|Lacy Lakeview]] and graduated from Baylor University<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Richards |url=https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/modern/richards-p01.html |publisher=tsl.state.tx.us |access-date=August 10, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Pete Sessions]], US congressman who represented Texas's 32nd and 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2019, was born and raised in Waco
* [[Ralph Sheffield]], member of the Texas House of Representatives from Bell County and restaurateur in Temple, was born in Waco in 1955<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/bios/5658.pdf |title=Ralph Sheffield Biography |publisher=Legislative Reference Library |access-date=February 21, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[David Sibley (politician)|David McAdams Sibley Sr.]], former state senator (1991–2002), was mayor of Waco (1987–1988)<ref>{{cite web |title=David Sibley |url=http://www.waco-texas.com/pdf/council/city-officials-history.pdf |publisher=waco-texas.com |access-date=August 10, 2013 |archive-date=January 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103173418/http://www.waco-texas.com/pdf/council/city-officials-history.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>