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Tom DeLay, in full Thomas Dale DeLay, (born April 8, 1947, Laredo, Texas, U.S.), American Republican politician who served as a representative from Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives (1985–2006). He served as majority whip (1995–2003) and majority leader (2003–06) but resigned from the House in June 2006 in the face of corruption charges. DeLay spent a good deal of his childhood in Venezuela because of his father’s career in the oil and gas industry. He attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, before earning a biology degree from the University of Houston (1970). He owned an...