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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Juan Salinas II and Renzo Downey

Trump nominates former Texas lawmaker Scott Turner to lead Housing and Urban Development

State Rep. Scott Turner, R-Frisco, gives a personal speech on the House floor in Austin in January 2015 after losing the speaker's race to Joe Straus, R-San Antonio.
Scott Turner, who has been nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, represented the 33rd district in the Texas House from 2013 to 2017. (Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune)

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former state House lawmaker Scott Turner to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday night, the first Texan to find a seat in Trump’s second Cabinet.

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