Editing Estelline, Texas (section)

==Government==
[[John Cornyn]] III is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States Senate]]. U.S. Senator Cornyn has served since 2002 and succeeded in his reelection in 2008, 2014, and again in 2020. He is Senate Majority Whip. He won the March 2014 Republican primary with 59% of the vote and the 2020 Republican primary with 76% of the vote.

William McClellan Thornberry, known as [[Mac Thornberry]], was the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from the [[Texas Panhandle]]. He served from 1995, when the House seated its first [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] majority in forty years, through 2021.

A Republican, Thornberry represented {{ushr|TX|13}}, a [[Republican Party (United States)|GOP]] stronghold which stretches between the [[Oklahoma]] and [[New Mexico]] borders. It winds across the Panhandle into the [[South Plains]], then runs east across the [[Red River of the South|Red River]] Valley. Covering over {{convert|40000|sqmi|km2}}, it is the second-largest district geographically in Texas and one of the largest (excluding at-large districts in [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], and [[Alaska]]) in the country. It is even larger in area than thirteen states. The principal cities in the district are [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]] and [[Wichita Falls]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Mac Thornberry, former Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District | website=GovTrack.us | date=6 January 2015 | url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/mac_thornberry/400404 | access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref>

Kelton Gray Seliger, known as [[Kel Seliger]] is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[Texas State Senate]] representing [[Texas Senate, District 31|District 31]], which stretches from the [[Texas Panhandle|Panhandle]] to the [[Permian Basin (North America)|Permian Basin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist31/dist31.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-04-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418211131/http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/Senate/members/dist31/dist31.htm |archive-date=2015-04-18 }} - Retrieved 2014-09-02.</ref>

[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Drew Springer, Jr.]], a businessman from [[Muenster, Texas|Muenster]] in [[Cooke County, Texas|Cooke County]], has since January 2013 represented Estelline in the [[Texas House of Representatives]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/adam-d-young/2013-07-16/state-rep-springer-announces-district-tour-july-30#.UefOvhUo45s|title=State Rep. Springer announces district tour July 30|newspaper=[[Lubbock Avalanche-Journal]]|date=2013-07-16|access-date=2014-09-02}}</ref>