Will Hurd

American politician and former CIA officer serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district since 2015. The district stretches about 550 miles from San Antonio to El Paso along the US–Mexican border. On August 1, 2019, Hurd announced that he will not run for reelection to Congress in 2020. Hurd is the only black Republican in the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress, one of seven in the House of Representatives since the 1930s; he shared this distinction with Mia Love during her term in Congress from 2017 to 2019.