Ben Barnes: Outstanding Texas Politician
Texas, the Lone Star State, is the state of origin for some of America’s most significant and powerful political figures. In addition to Texan former Presidents Lyndon Johnson, the senior George H. Bush and George W. Bush, another political figure who has dedicated his life to improving the welfare of Texans is Ben Barnes, politician, who has remained active in state politics after ending his remarkably long political career in 1973.
Ben Barnes is proud of the fact that he is a homegrown Texan. Born in 1938 as the son of a peanut farmer from De Leon, Ben Barnes, politician, attended the University of Texas for his undergraduate studies and subsequently pursued law at Lubbock’s Texas Tech. While enrolled in college, he worked for the Texas State Health Department and discovered corruption, which eventually led to the indictment of the State Health Commissioner. After serving a stint as legislator since 1960 in his early 20s, Ben Barnes, politician, won as Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1969 and served until 1973.
During his term, the University of Texas and Texas A&M emerged in the top five universities in the country and teachers’ salaries had increases. Post political career, Ben Barnes busies himself by being an active lobbyist and consultant. In addition to this, he also spends his time at Entrecorp, a consulting firm he founded in 1989.
