Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 8th congressional district (map). The district includes a large swath of suburban and rural territory around Houston and Beaumont.
Brady was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, one of five children of William and Nancy Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a cou...
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Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 8th congressional district (map). The district includes a large swath of suburban and rural territory around Houston and Beaumont.
Brady was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, one of five children of William and Nancy Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting in Rapid City when Brady was 12 years old. Brady now calls The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston, his home.
Brady graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, where he also became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. A chamber of commerce executive who also served on the Rapid City Common Council, Brady moved to Texas to work for the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce and later the South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce.
He began his political career in 1990 when he was elected to the Texas House of...
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