Don Huffines
Don Huffines | |
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| Member of the Texas Senate from the 16th district | |
| In office January 13, 2015 – January 8, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | John Carona |
| Succeeded by | Nathan M. Johnson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Donald Blaine Huffines April 26, 1958 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Mary Huffines |
| Children | 5 |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BBA) |
Donald Blaine Huffines is an American politician and businessman from the state of Texas. Huffines co-owns and operates Huffines Communities, a real estate development company in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. A conservative, Tea Party Republican, Huffines represented District 16 in the Texas Senate from 2015 to 2019. He lost his re-election campaign in 2018.
Remaining active in politics, Huffines ran for Governor of Texas in the 2022 Republican primary, challenging incumbent Greg Abbott after the COVID-19 pandemic and government lockdowns.
Huffines later founded the Huffines Liberty Foundation, a fiscally conservative Texas think-tank. Huffines has published numerous op-eds with the Foundation in the Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News on property taxes.
On March 7, 2025 Huffines announced his candidacy for the recently vacant Texas Comptroller position. If elected, he said, “I will DOGE Texas by exposing waste, fraud, and abuse in government to increase efficiency and put every penny we save into property tax relief.”