Kay Bailey Hutchison Biography
Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney, television correspondent, politician, and diplomat who is the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously a United States Senator for Texas from 1993 to 2013.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Age
Kay Bailey Hutchison was born on July 22, 1943, and she is age 76 years old as per 2019.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Marriage
She married her first husband, John Pierce Parks, a medical student, on April 8, 1967; they divorced in 1969. She married her second husband, Ray Hutchison, in Dallas on March 16, 1978. They had two children: Kathryn Bailey and Houston Taylor, both adopted in 2001.
She also has two stepdaughters, Brenda and Julie, from her husband’s previous marriage. Ray Hutchison was an attorney who served as a Republican in the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 to 1977 and as the chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1976 to 1977. He died on March 30, 2014, at the age of 81.
Hutchison and her family have their primary residence in Belgium. She had a second house in Virginia, where she lived when the U.S. Senate was in session. In August 2009 she put her Virginia house up for sale, and her campaign stated, “She’s no longer going to be in the United States Senate.
She’s coming home to Texas. That’s why it’s for sale.” She has also purchased a house in Nacogdoches, Texas. She is a supporter of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation where she is an honorary board member.
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Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Events
8 Aug • Knowledge Fest | Dallas
17 Aug • AWS Certified – Security Specialty Study Group
17 Aug • AP CM – SRI YS JAGAN MOHAN REDDY In DALLAS
22 Aug • McKay Project
23 Aug • McKay Project
28 Aug • Ambition 2019
1 Sep • At the 3rd Annual Riverfront Jazz Festival: Dallas, TX.
3 Sep • Mecum Dallas
Kay Bailey Hutchison Career
In 1972, Hutchison was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from a district in Houston. She served until 1976. She was vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from 1976 to 1978.
She was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1982 for the Dallas-based 3rd District but was defeated in the primary by Steve Bartlett. She temporarily left politics and became a bank executive and businesswoman.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Facts
1. Kay Bailey Hutchison is known for her consensus-seeking way in the Senate and her ability to get favors and funding for Texas.
2. If elected governor, she would join only Sam Houston and Price Daniel as U.S. senators who became governor of Texas.
3. Hutchison had an 80 percent conservative rating from the nonpartisan National Journal in 2008, just behind her colleague Sen. John Cornyn, who had an 83 percent mark.
4. She considers transportation and education the keys to Texas’ future economic success.
5. She was born Kathryn Ann Bailey on July 22, 1943, in Galveston.
6. She grew up in LaMarque, Texas, and aspired to become a middle-class homemaker.
7. One of her favorite childhood memories was going crabbing and sailing in Galveston Bay.
8. She said she inherited her work ethic from her father, who was a real estate broker.
9. She became the first Republican woman elected to the Texas House in 1972 and later, the first Republican woman elected to statewide office.
10. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas.
11. Hutchison does not support overturning Roe vs. Wade, saying she is concerned it might allow states to remove restrictions on abortion.
12. She initially majored in government at the University of Texas, but switched to pre-law “because I didn’t find someone to marry when I was in college.”
13. She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
14. As a UT cheerleader, she watched two of the best football teams in Texas’ history. In 1963, the Longhorns were undefeated national champions and in 1964, the team suffered only one loss.
15. She was one of seven women in the class of 236 who graduated from the University of Texas Law School in June 1967.
16. She didn’t get her undergraduate degree until 1992. She had enough credits to move on to and graduate from law school, but she waited more than 20 years to complete a missing Spanish course.
17. She initially planned on leaving the Senate last fall to run full-time for governor, but she then decided it would leave Texas and Republicans at disadvantage.
18. She and her husband, Ray, sold their house in McLean, Va., in October for $1.4 million. That’s $170,000 less than they bought it for in 2006.
19. She voted for the initial $700 billion Wall Street bailout package in 2008, and she has since said she would change that vote if she could. She later voted against authorizing the second half of the money to be spent.
20. Hutchison voted against reappointing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this year, but Bernanke was confirmed in 70-30 vote.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Center Dallas
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is a convention center in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The original Dallas Memorial Auditorium was designed by George Dahl in 1957. It holds approximately 10,000 seats.
Dahl was responsible for the renowned Art Deco buildings at the Dallas Fair Park, as well as many other Texas landmarks. The Convention Center additions were designed by Larry Oltmanns, who was a Design Partner with Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill at the time.
The Dallas Memorial Auditorium was originally constructed in 1957 near the intersection of Canton and Akard Street. While the auditorium still hosts many smaller events, its antiquated facilities, and technology, along with the fact that it is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, have kept it less busy than in the past.
In the 1970s, the center was expanded and renamed the Dallas Convention Center; the expansion was designed by local architects Omniplan.
The center was expanded again in 1984 and once more in 1994, when Dallas Area Rapid Transit constructed the Convention Center Station underneath the west-wing of the facility, connecting it to the Red and Blue light rail lines.
The most recent addition to the facility was completed in 2002. The complex was renamed in honor of former US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2013.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Nato
On June 29, 2017, Hutchison was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the United States Permanent Representative to NATO. The U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote on August 3, 2017. Hutchison was sworn in on August 15, 2017, and started the position on August 28, 2017.
On October 2, 2018, Hutchinson suggested NATO would consider destroying Russian medium-range nuclear systems if Russia continued development on those systems, which would be an act of war under international law.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Directions
From Cityscape at Market Center, Plano 72 min. 451.
From Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Dallas 40 min. …
From SuperTarget, Dallas 53 min. 583.
From 24 Hour Fitness, Irving 89 min. 401. 283.
From Carrollton, TX 70 min. 400.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
In my opinion, governors don’t make the best presidents. That’s my opinion and it’s because they don’t have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.
Unfortunately, because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it’s made the media, in general, more opinionated and there’s more of a ‘gotcha mentality’ than real reporting.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that’s who you are. Don’t try to be someone that society wants you to be; that’s stupid. So be yourself.
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United States Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women – and a large number of men, too.
Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dart
Dallas Convention Center is a DART Light Rail station located in Dallas, Texas. It is located at Memorial Drive and Lamar Street, underneath the Dallas Convention Center in the Convention Center District.
It opened on June 14, 1996, and is a station on the Red and Blue lines, serving the Dallas Convention Center, the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, Dallas City Hall and Pioneer Park.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Twitter
Great to be a part of the important discussions at the Aspen Strategy Group’s Summer Workshop this past weekend. @AspenStrategy facilitates important dialogue with people from across the political spectrum, addressing key issues in the transatlantic & global security environment. pic.twitter.com/0uwes0HDqr
— Ambassador Hutchison (@USAmbNATO) August 6, 2019
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