Barry Williamson

{{short description|American lawyer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Barry Ashlin Williamson | image = | order = | title = Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas | term_start = January 1997 | term_end = June 1998 | preceded = Carole Keeton Rylander | succeeded = Carole Keeton Rylander | title2 = Railroad Commissioner of Texas | term_start2 = January 5, 1993 | term_end2 = January 3, 1999<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rrc.texas.gov/about-us/commissioners/commissioner-list/|title=Railroad Commissioners Past through Present|access-date=April 3, 2024|website=www.rrc.texas.gov}}</ref> | preceded2 = Jim Wallace | succeeded2 = Tony Garza | governor = George W. Bush | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|6|19}} | birth_place = Arkansas, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | spouse = Holly Holt Williamson | children = 2 | alma_mater = | occupation = Attorney | website = | footnotes = | governor2 = Ann Richards<br>George W. Bush }}

'''Barry Ashlin Williamson''' (born June 19, 1957) is an attorney from Austin, Texas, who was from 1993 to 1999 a Republican member of the Texas Railroad Commission. In 1992, he defeated the appointed incumbent Lena Guerrero, a Democrat, to win a seat on the three-member panel which regulates oil and natural gas operations (not railroads).<ref name=mixed>{{cite news | title = Our mixed bag | newspaper = Victoria Advocate | page = 3 | date = 1992-11-05 }}</ref>

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