Hector Uribe
Hector Rolando Uribe is an American lawyer, former Democratic member of the Texas Senate, District 27 and a past candidate for Texas Land Commissioner.
He graduated from Christopher Columbus Marist High School in Miami, Florida and later attended the University of Madrid in the summer of 1966.
He graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and later a Juris Doctor in 1970.
He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1978 to 1981 and in the Texas Senate from 1981 to 1991.
As a senator, he worked to pass the Texas Enterprise Zone Act, which is designed to create new jobs in economically impacted areas, and the Protective Services for the Elderly Act, which guards against abuse of senior citizens. He also worked to establish the University of Texas–Pan American.
Uribe, a narrow winner in the March 2, 2010, Democratic primary for land commissioner, faced the incumbent Republican Jerry E. Patterson in the November 2, 2010 general election but lost with 35 percent of the ballots cast.
