Tom Craddick

State Representative, District 082

TX House · Republican

Thomas Russell Craddick Sr. (born September 19, 1943) is an American politician serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1969. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009. Craddick was first elected in 1968 at the age of twenty-five and, as of 2025, is the longest serving legislator in the history of the Texas House of Representatives and the longest serving incumbent state legislator in the United States. On July 1, 2025, Craddick announced he would be running in 2026 for his 30th term.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 182
Ballots cast: 177
Participation: 97.3%
Yea / Nay: 167 / 10

Yea167

Nay10

Absent5

Abstain0

182 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

182 votes

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Relating to informed consent for certain screening tests.	house	4749	Yea
Relating to informed consent for certain screening tests.	house	4748	Yea
Relating to informed consent for certain screening tests.	house	4747	Yea
Relating to the creation of an organized oilfield theft prevention unit within the Department of Public Safety.	house	4736	Yea
Relating to perinatal bereavement care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal bereavement care initiative, and a perinatal bereavement care hospital recognition program.	house	4665	Yea
Relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public schools.

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.