Midlothian resident and Texas State Representative Jake Ellzey defeated incumbent Susan Wright for the 6th Congressional District seat in a special Texas runoff election on Tuesday.
The 51-year-old combat pilot and current commercial airline flight captain is now at the controls of a district that Republicans have held for nearly 40 years. Joe Barton, of Ennis, who supported Ellzey, was the district’s congressman for approximately 34 of those years.
