# Barry Williamson

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{{short description|American lawyer}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name        = Barry Ashlin Williamson
| image       =
| order       = 
| title       = [Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas](/source/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas)
| term_start  = January 1997
| term_end    = June 1998
| preceded    = [Carole Keeton Rylander](/source/Carole_Strayhorn)
| succeeded   = [Carole Keeton Rylander](/source/Carole_Strayhorn)
| title2      = [Railroad Commissioner of Texas](/source/Railroad_Commission_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](/source/Tony_Garza)
| governor    = [George W. Bush](/source/George_W._Bush)
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1957|6|19}}
| birth_place = [Arkansas](/source/Arkansas), U.S.
| death_date  = 
| death_place = 
| party       = [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States))
| spouse      = Holly Holt Williamson
| children    = 2
| alma_mater  = 
| occupation  = [Attorney](/source/Attorney_at_law_(United_States))
| website     = 
| footnotes   = 
| governor2   = [Ann Richards](/source/Ann_Richards)<br>[George W. Bush](/source/George_W._Bush) 
}}

'''Barry Ashlin Williamson''' (born June 19, 1957) is an [attorney](/source/Attorney_at-law) from [Austin, Texas](/source/Austin%2C_Texas), who was from 1993 to 1999 a [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) member of the [Texas Railroad Commission](/source/Texas_Railroad_Commission). In 1992, he defeated the appointed [incumbent](/source/incumbent) [Lena Guerrero](/source/Lena_Guerrero), a [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)), 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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{{succession box
|before=Jim Wallace (interim)
|title=[Texas Railroad Commission](/source/Texas_Railroad_Commission)er
|years=1992–1999
|after=[Tony Garza](/source/Tony_Garza)
}}
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{{Railroad Commissioners of Texas}}

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Category:1957 births
Category:Living people
Category:Texas Republicans
Category:Members of the Railroad Commission of Texas
Category:People from Desha County, Arkansas
Category:People from Phillips County, Arkansas
Category:Lawyers from Austin, Texas
Category:People from Midland, Texas
Category:Lawyers from Dallas
Category:American businesspeople

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