Mineola is a city in Wood County

Wood County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 36,752 people, 14,583 households, and 10,645 families residing in the county. The population density was 56 people per square mile . There were 17,939 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile...

, Texas

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, United States

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. It lies at the junction of U.S. highways 69 and 80, eighty miles east of Dallas in southwestern Wood County. The population was 4,550 at the 2000 census.

William Jesse McDonald, one of the four best known captains of the Texas Rangers

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, was a storekeeper and then Wood County deputy sheriff in Mineola in the late 19th century.

Bryan Hughes

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Douglas Bryan Hughes, known as Bryan Hughes , is an attorney in Mineola, Texas, who has been since 2003 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 5, which includes Camp, Harrison, Upshur, and Wood counties in the northeastern section of his state.-Background:Hughes...

, a lawyer in Mineola, has been since 2003 a Republican

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 member of the Texas House of Representatives

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Mineola is located at 32°39′58"N 95°29′21"W (32.666008, -95.489147).

According to the United States Census Bureau

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, the city has a total area of 5.3 square miles (13.8 km²), of which, 5.3 square miles (13.7 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.75%) is water.
As of the census

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of 2000, there were 4,550 people, 1,779 households, and 1,197 families residing in the city.