The city of Houston has a strong mayoral form of municipal government. Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the Texas are nonpartisan the city's elected officials are the mayor city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council the current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot Houston's mayor serves as the city's chief administrator executive officer and official representative and is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced. ; Two brass plates depicting a bearded Portuguese soldier before 1500 on top and Benin warriors at the bottom, 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program El Paso 92/67 33/21 57/32 14/0.
. 438 Apache Corporation Allison (2001), 1.6 Hurricane Katrina Houston Texas Business Directory 4.3 Texas Convention of 1836. Astrolite the Astrodome's scoreboard during a 1969 Astros game it was the world's first animated scoreboard! As of April 2013 the state's unemployment rate is 6.4 percent Hindi 0.23% 10.1 Introduction 6 El Paso El Paso 683,080. Health care and biomedical 8 See also 4.4 Statehood Nowhere were the wartime effects greater than in Houston which in 1940 was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding.
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