Marc Veasey
Democrat Representative of Texas's 33rd district

Representative
Texas, district 33
January 3, 2013 - January 3, 2015
Representative
Texas, district 33
January 6, 2015 - January 3, 2017
Representative
Texas, district 33
January 3, 2017 - January 3, 2019
Representative
Texas, district 33
January 3, 2019 - January 3, 2021
Representative
Texas, district 33
January 3, 2021 - January 3, 2023
Representative
Texas, district 33
January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025
6
Congresses Served
6
House Terms
January 3, 1971 (54 years old)
Birthday
- Served as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2013
- Represented Texas’s 33rd congressional district
- Served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2005 to 2013
- Held the position of chair pro tempore of the House Democratic Caucus in the Texas House of Representatives
- Grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended Arlington Heights High School
- Graduated from Texas Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications
- Worked as a substitute teacher, sportswriter, and for an advertising agency before entering politics
- Volunteered and then worked for U.S. Representative Martin Frost for five years
- Authored legislation to honor Tim Cole, a wrongfully convicted student, and to enforce the James Byrd Jr. hate crime bill
- Served on several committees in the Texas House, including the Elections Committee and the Environmental Regulation Committee
- First elected to Congress in 2012, becoming the first African-American U.S. Representative from Tarrant County
- Has been re-elected multiple times, with his campaign spending reaching $1.5 million in 2016
- Voted with President Joe Biden’s stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress
- Supports a woman’s right to abortion and voted for the Violence Against Women Act
- Opposed the Sierra Club on offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico but defended Texas oil interests
- Serves on the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House
- Member of several caucuses, including the Congressional Black Caucus and the LGBT Equality Caucus
- Married to Tonya Jackson, with whom he has a son; his uncle was a television reporter and worked for a former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives