On September 19, 2011, O ' Grady announced his own candidacy for the Texas statehouse, seeking the 2012 Republican nomination in Senate District 8 following the retirement of Sen. Florence Shapiro.

Florence Donald Shapiro ( born May 2, 1948 ) is an American politician from Texas.

A first-generation American and the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Florence Shapiro was born in New York City ,.

Florence Shapiro was first elected to the Texas Senate in 1992, after defeating Democratic incumbent Ted Lyon, serving since 1993.

Florence Shapiro and Roger Staubach

* Florence Shapiro, American politician

* David Cain ( Texas politician ), former State Senator of the 2nd District of Texas, see Florence Shapiro

Shapiro was born to Florence and Seymour Shapiro in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York in 1956.

Past recipients include Texas State Senator Florence Shapiro, television anchor Tracy Rowlett, and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot.

At the age of fourteen he entered the Camaldolese Order in the Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist.

In October 1350, he was delegated to greet Francesco Petrarch as he entered Florence and also to have the great man as a guest at his home during his stay.

He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in 1941 and, following his father's advice, entered the University of Florence to study art and architecture.

He entered Rome on 20 September 1870 and set up the new capital there on 2 July 1871, after a temporary move to Florence in 1864.

In 1401, Brunelleschi entered a competition to design a new set of bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery.

She entered the Cabinet as the first Minister for Overseas Development, becoming the fourth woman in British history ever to hold position in a Cabinet, after Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson and Florence Horsbrugh.

Educated at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg, he obtained a position in Florence through the influence of an Englishman, William Craufurd, but soon he entered the Prussian diplomatic service and was employed in Florence, in Constantinople and in Rome.

In 1834 Giusti, having at last entered the legal profession, left Pisa to go to Florence, nominally to practise with the advocate Capoquadri, but really to enjoy life in the capital of Tuscany.

From Germany Sir Robert went to Florence and then Rome, where he entered on Sunday, 27 September 1609, attended by a suite of eighteen persons.

She then entered the following week in a $ 25, 000 International Tennis Federation ( ITF ) tournament in Florence, Italy, where she qualified and proceeded to win the tournament, saving two match points against Mirjana Lučić in the quarterfinals and defeating seventh-seeded Lucie Hradecká in the final 6 – 1, 6 – 3.

In November Charles, on his way to Naples, entered Florence with his army, and immediately began to behave as though he were the conqueror of the city, because he had entered it lance in rest.

On 24 May the latter appointed G Baldasseroni prime minister, on the 25th the Austrians entered Florence and on 28 July Leopold himself returned.

Florence was declared an open city and Allied troops entered on 4 August.

Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing.

He entered the Order of the Jesuits, resided at Rome and in 1773 was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, where he became president of the Accademia della Crusca.

Before the 1553 consecration of Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa, the term Chaldeans had only been officially used previously by the Council of Florence in 1445 as a new name for a group of Greek Nestorians of Cyprus who entered in Full Communion with the Catholic Church.

By the end of 1587 Marenzio had entered into the service of Ferdinando I de ' Medici in Florence, where he stayed for two years.

In Florence he entered the Society of Jesus, taking the habit in Rome in 1655 ; it was calumniously rumoured that he adopted this course in order to escape punishment for having poisoned his wife.

Later Braccio entered the service of King Ladislaus of Naples, who was at war with Florence and the Pope: at the time he had 1, 200 cavalry and 1, 000 infantry under him.

In 1414 he fought in Todi against Sforza, who had been hired by the King of Naples ; in June he entered Florence, with which he signed a pact of alliance for 10 years.

When 16, she entered the Carmelite convent in Florence because she could receive Communion daily there.

Born in Venice, he entered the Benedictine Order in Florence in 1695 and was ordained in 1702.

The family governed by force, ruse, and power politics, similar to the Medici in Florence.

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

He lived for some years of his youth in Florence and showed an early interest in politics, the military, and sports.

* Adrian W. B. Randolph, Engaging symbols: gender, politics, and public art in fifteenth-century Florence.

Villani returned to Florence in 1307 where he married and settled down for a life of city politics.

" Hyde also notes that Villani's criticisms of the commune politics in Florence promoted a trend of personal expression amongst later chroniclers that defied official conformity.

Named papal vicar, he lost himself in the imbroglio of Italian politics, was compromised in a massacre at Florence and in sordid financial exigencies, reached Sicily where he consolidated his reputation as a looter and finally returned to France discredited in 1301-1302.

The Arnolfini were a powerful family in Lucca, involved in the politics and trade of the small but wealthy city, which specialised ( like Florence ) in weaving expensive cloth.

In literature he was a classicist ; in politics he was a Ghibelline, a rare exception in Guelph Florence, his birthplace.

It was speculated that her husband, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, intended entering federal politics, and that at some point Florence would resign from the Senate to allow Joh to be appointed to the vacancy.

In the late 1850s, the artists met regularly at the Caffè Michelangiolo in Florence to discuss art and politics.