Michael L. "Mike" Galloway (born March 3, 1965)[1] is previously a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 4.
Galloway defeated Democratic incumbent Carl Parker and became the first Republican to hold the seat since Reconstruction.
In 1992, at the age of 27, Galloway decided to run against the 30-year incumbent Democrat, Senator Carl Parker.
Galloway ran for the District 4 seat, a seat he previously held in the 1990s, in the Texas Senate, vacated in the fall of 2013 by the resignation of Republican Tommy Williams of The Woodlands, who accepted a position with Texas A&M University in College Station.
[2] Galloway faced an intraparty battle for the Senate vacancy from the District 15 Representative Steve Toth of The Woodlands, the District 16 Representative Brandon Creighton of Conroe, and Gordy Bunch, who serves on The Woodlands township council.