Charles Schwertner
Senator · State senate · Texas · District 5
Republican
Biography
Senator Charles Schwertner, MD is a sixth-generation Texan and lifelong conservative Republican. Since 2013, Dr. Schwertner has represented Senate District 5, an eleven-county region of central and east Texas that includes Bastrop, Brazos, Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson, San Jacinto, Walker, and Williamson counties. Throughout his time in the Texas Legislature, Schwertner has led the way on a number of important policy initiatives including authoring one of the strongest Constitutional Carry laws in the nation, reforming the state’s electrical grid, expanding access to mental health services, improving the state foster care system, strengthening landowner rights, cutting taxes for small businesses, protecting seniors from abuse, and fighting to lower tuition at public universities.
On the record
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin, B.S. in Pharmacy; University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, M.D.
- Profession
- Orthopedic Surgeon
- Born
- 1970-05-29
- Family
- Married; three children.
Contact
- Capitol office
- Room 3S.5, P.O. Box 12068 Capitol Station, Austin, TX 78711 · 512-463-0105
- Phone
- 512-463-0105
- charles.schwertner@senate.texas.gov