George Edward Lavender (born September 7, 1955)[1] is an American state politician and a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives, having been first elected on November 2, 2010 and voted out of office in 2014 after only two terms.
[4] Born and raised in Arkansas, Lavender is now a businessman in Texarkana in Bowie County, Texas, where he resides with his wife.
Lavender was defeated, 45–55 percent in the 2008 general election by the Democratic incumbent Representative Stephen James Frost of New Boston, also in Bowie County.
Earlier, in both 1994 and 1996, Lavender ran unsuccessfully for the District 1 seat in the Texas State Senate, first as a Democrat, then as a Republican.
[1] He worked for passage of legislation signed by Governor Rick Perry, which permits the manufacture of incandescent light bulbs in Texas.