Republican
for Texas Senate District 4











              Michael Galloway is a fifth generation Texan, who was born in 1965 and grew up on a small farm
       near Tomball.  By age 16, Mike was working as a roustabout and a roughneck in the oil fields of
       Southeast Texas .  While still in high school, he began work as an independent oil and gas contractor
       and in 1989 at the age of 24 he founded Galloway Energy, an oil and gas production company based
       in Montgomery County .

                In 1992, he decided to run against the 30-year incumbent democrat, Senator Carl Parker.
       Although unsuccessful in his first race, he gained the momentum that would lead him to victory against
       Parker in 1994.  Michael Galloway, at the age of 29, became the youngest member of Texas Senate
       and the first Republican elected to represent District 4 since 1876.

               As State Senator, Mike served as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Intergovernmental
       Relations and a member of the Senate Committees on Health and Human Services, Education and
       State Affairs, as well as the Special Committee on Auto Emissions and the Special Interim Committee
       on Annexation.

                                                        Representing Senate District 4, Senator Galloway helped pass the most
                                                comprehensive tort reform in the nation, the most meaningful education
                                                reform in half a century and reform of the welfare system.  Senator Galloway
                                                voted to increase the sentencing of the most violent criminals and reform of
                                                the juvenile justice system. Michael Galloway was also instrumental in
                                                defeating an effort to expand the business tax in 1997 and was a key player
                                                in returning a billion dollars in surplus to Texas taxpayers.                           

                                                        Michael Galloway has been an effective leader for Southeast Texas.
                                                In 1995, he fought the EPA and TNRCC to remove Southeast Texas from
                                                the onerous auto emissions testing program.  He took on the “Status Quo”
                                                to successfully reform Lamar University.  Senator Galloway worked to
                                                implement the most comprehensive restrictions protecting our water in
        Texas history and helped to create the regional council that protects our water.  Galloway successfully
        lobbied the Texas Department of Transportation to start construction of highway projects years ahead
        of schedule.  

                Senator Galloway also fought the city of Houston on the issue of forced annexation, passing the
        only bill in history through the Texas Senate that would prevent forced annexation.  Although the bill
        was blocked in the house, Mike was able to persuade Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock to appoint a Special
        Interim Committee on Annexation.  Mike brought the first meeting to the Fourth District so the
        members of that committee could hear the concerns of citizens firsthand.  As a result, the committee
        passed the greatest reforms curbing forced annexation since 1963.  For Senator Galloway’s effort,
        The Annexation Reform Committee honored him as their “Legislator of the Year” in 1997.

                Senator Galloway was one of only a hand full of Senators to have a 100% attendance record
        and was consistently ranked as the lowest spender in the Texas Senate.  He has been listed on the
        Young Conservatives of Texas Honor Roll and was named “Leader of Excellence” and “Most
        Conservative” in both legislative sessions that he served.

               Michael and his wife of twenty-two years, Angela, reside in Montgomery County with their two
        children, ages fourteen and eleven.
           
Paid for by Galloway for Senate, PO Box 956, Tomball, TX