Robert Allan Shivers (October 5, 1907 – January 14, 1985) was a Texas politician who led the conservative faction of the Texas Democratic Party during the turbulent 1940s and 1950s. Shivers also developed the lieutenant governor's post into an extremely powerful perch in state government.

Born in Lufkin, the seat of Angelina County in East Texas, Shivers was educated at the University of Texas at Austin, having earned a law degree in 1933. While at UT, he was a member of the Texas Cowboys and the Friar Society, and he served as the student body president. In 1934, he was elected to the Texas State Senate, having become the youngest person ever to serve in the State Senate. He served in the Senate from 1934 to 1946, except for two years service in the United States Army during World War II, from which he was discharged with the rank of major.

Wendell Herman Nedderman, Ph.D (born October 31, 1921) served over 18 years (February 1974 to July 1992) as President of The University of Texas at Arlington. After 10 years as engineering dean, he served as vice president for academic affairs and simultaneously held such positions as graduate school administrator and vice president for research and graduate affairs. In 1992, he was named president emeritus and received the Mirabeau B. Lamar Award for leadership in learning by the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities.

Nedderman is a native of Lovilia, Iowa and was born in 1921. He graduated from Lovilia High School and earned a B.S. in Civil engineering from Iowa State University in 1943. From there he immediately joined the Navy and was sent to the U.S. Naval Academy’s Reserve Midshipman’s School. During World War II, Dr. Nedderman served as Engineering Officer aboard the Destroyers USS Patterson and USS Charles S. Sperry. By 1946, he had earned the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with six stars and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with two stars, as well as three campaign ribbons fighting in the Marianas, The Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. Perry, a Republican, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full gubernatorial terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010. With a tenure in office to date of &1000000000000001100000011 years, &10000000000000188000000188 days, Perry is the longest continuously serving current U.S. governor, and the second longest serving current U.S. governor—after Terry Branstad of Iowa. Perry served as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2008 (succeeding Sonny Perdue of Georgia) and again in 2011. Perry is the longest serving governor in Texas state history. As a result, he is the only governor in modern Texas history to have appointed at least one person to every eligible state office, board, or commission position (as well as to several elected offices to which the governor can appoint someone to fill an unexpired term, such as six of the nine current members of the Texas Supreme Court).

Linda Kay Lowry (born October 15, 1947) is an American actress, screenwriter and producer.

Lowry was born in East St. Louis, Illinois and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

Her first film appearance was I Drink Your Blood in 1970. She appeared in two key 1970s horror films, George A. Romero's The Crazies in 1973 and David Cronenberg's Shivers in 1974, followed by a sixteen-month role as the adulterer-heroine Sandra on NBC's short-lived soap opera How to Survive a Marriage, as well as a brief part on the daytime serial Another World.

Lowry was also one of the two female leads in Radley Metzger's film Score (1973). She and Carl Parker are the only actors from the film who are still alive as of 2007.

She has several films due for release in 2008-9: Splatter Disco, Psychosomatika, Beyond the Dunwich Horror, Basement Jack, and Schism, which she co-wrote and co-produced. Lowry starred last in Dante Tomaselli's Torture Chamber.

In 2010 Lowry made a cameo appearance in the remake of The Crazies as "Woman On Bike". She can be seen in the twenty-fourth minute of the film.