David A. Hartman was a 1994 candidate for Texas State Treasurer

Texas State Treasurer

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 and is a retired banker in the Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 area.

During his earlier large-corporation experience, he worked in product and process development, market and economic research, strategic planning and plant management—culminating in Manufacturing and Development Director of Mobil

Mobil

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 Chemicals, LTD.’s, Polymer Division. Since then he served for 33 years as CEO of manufacturing, transportation and banking companies, including Hartland Bank in the Austin area which he founded in 1990.

Since then, Hartman devoted attention to public policy, most particularly the fiscal economics of government spending, taxation, financial markets, welfare, and education at the state and national levels. He served as Chairman of two subcommittees of the 1986 Special Committee on Organization of State Agencies. He has also given formal testimony before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, The Texas Legislature

Texas Legislature

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, and The President’s Panel on Tax Reform.

Hartman was chairman and CEO of the Lone Star Foundation, a conservative state politics think-tank in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 for 15 years, and of the Rockford Institute

Rockford Institute

Rockford Institute is a conservative think-tank associated with paleoconservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois. It is known for the John Randolph Club, and publishes Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture....

, an American culture and politics think-tank in Rockford, Illinois

Rockford, Illinois

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Hartman holds a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University

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, and an Master of Business Administration degree with distinction from Harvard University

Harvard University

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