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- Carol S. Vance is a former district attorney of Harris County (Houston), Texas, who served in that office from 1966 to 1979, and a former board member of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, which governs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Vance was born in 1933. For a period Vance was a resident of the Westbury area of Houston. In 1992, Governor of Texas Ann Richards named Vance as the head of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. Vance attended Houston public schools and graduated from the law school at the University of Texas in Austin. He served as Harris County assistant district attorney in 1958, shortly after graduating from law school, first under Dan Walton and then under Frank Briscoe. He was appointed by Governor of Texas John Connally to fill the vacated district attorney’s spot when resigned to run for Congress in 1966 (Briscoe lost to Republican George H. W. Bush). At age 32, he became the second-youngest district attorney in Harris County history (only 21-year-old Peter Gray, chosen in 1842, was younger). He ran in the next election and won the position in his own right. Vance served as district attorney from 1966 until resigning in 1979. He was unopposed in each of his elections. (en)
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- Carol S. Vance is a former district attorney of Harris County (Houston), Texas, who served in that office from 1966 to 1979, and a former board member of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, which governs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Vance was born in 1933. For a period Vance was a resident of the Westbury area of Houston. In 1992, Governor of Texas Ann Richards named Vance as the head of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. Vance served as district attorney from 1966 until resigning in 1979. He was unopposed in each of his elections. (en)
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