D. A. Sharpe
Aurora, Wise
County, Texas
Biographical sketch for Political constituencies
Dwight Albert Sharpe seeks roles to serve in
the political arena of life, based upon his Christian
faith’s responsibilities. Isaiah 33:22 exhorts, “For the Lord is
our judge, our lawgiver and our king.” We derive the three parts of our American
government from this verse. The judge is
representative of our courts, the lawgiver is our Congress and Legislatures,
and the king is our President, Governor, Mayor, etc. The verse Ecclesiastes 10:20 does exhort us
not to make light of the king (criticize the political leader), but rather to
pray for them, regardless of what opinion we might have of a political leader.
Mr. Sharpe is a
fifth-generation Texan, born 1939 in Ballinger, Runnels County, Texas.
His family has been in Texas since 1841. He has lived in Texas of
his life, except for 20 years in Louisiana (1962-72) and Missouri (1972-82).
Mr. Sharpe serves or has
serves on all four levels of government. He was appointed in September
2012 to the Selective Service Board in North Texas, a
Federal agency. He was an Official of the State of Texas, having been appointed
by the Governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate to serve, served for two
3-year terms before stepping down in October 2016, on the Texas
Board of Examiners of Dietitians, one of the professional licensing boards of
the State. He is a county official as Chairman of the Wise County Ballot Board, which oversees
elections. He is a city official serving as Chair of the Historical Preservation
Commission of the City of Aurora,
where he is a resident in Wise County. All these positions are unpaid voluntary
activities and for which no expenses are reimbursed.
His political service
for the Republican
Party of Texas dates back to 1982 where in Dallas County he served as a Precinct
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Chairman and Election Judge in University Park and later in North Dallas. He has
been elected a delegate to the Texas
State Republican Party Convention every even numbered year since 1988, except for 1990, when
he was in Europe and in 2012 when he was in surgery! (Former President George W. Bush dropped by
his hospital room for a brief visit). He
and Suzanne are Delegates in June 2018 to the Republican State Convention in
San Antonio, which is the 14th time to be State Delegates since 1988.
His earlier Republican
political assignments began in Saint Louis County, Missouri as an Election
Judge (beginning in 1974) and Hadley Township Convention Chairman. He was elected a
delegate to the 1978 and 1980 Missouri State
Republican Conventions. In 1966, while a resident of New Orleans,
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, his local voting precinct poll was in his home on
Claiborne Avenue @ Broadway.
In 1999, Mr. & Mrs.
Sharpe moved to Aurora, Wise County. In 2000, he was
elected Chairman of the Wise County
Republican Party, and again in 2002, 2004 and in 2006. In 2008, he
stepped down to encourage new and younger leadership in the local party, which
was a successful transition.
He has been Delegation
Chairman for Wise County at the State Republican Conventions several times, and has been Chairman or other leadership position in
the Convention State Senate Caucus meetings, 2000 - 2016. He currently is
active with the Wise County Republican Party and assists with the administration
of the Wise Republican Women.
At the Republican State Convention June 7-9, 2012 in Fort
Worth, Texas, he was elected an Alternate Delegate from Congressional District
#12 to represent Texas at the Republican National Convention in Tampa,
Florida. At the time, he became the first person ever elected from Wise
County to be represented in the Texas delegation at a National Republican
Convention. He was present at that Convention to see the unveiling
of the Clint
Eastwood
infamous Empty Chair skit! Clint is a distant cousin!
Both Mr. & Mrs.
Sharpe attended the Presidential Inaugurations of President Bush in 2001 and
2005, as well as President Obama’s in 2009.
In each of those Inaugural seasons were participants in the Black Tie & Boots Ball of the Texas State Society of Washington, D.C., of which they are
annual members.
His political
motivation is that our nation would be returned to that phrase in the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness. Our founders recognized that we need to
acknowledge our Creator. The attempts of modernists in the past century
have tried to steer us into a secular society. It is one that seeks to accomplish
good and governing without the presence of God. It has been a moral
failure, in the eyes of many.
The Article I of
the Constitution states, Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. Everyone
knows Congress cannot establish a religion, but that Amendment often is not
read completely. Notice that Congress may
not prohibit the free exercise of religion. Mr. Sharpe believes
that means the laws cannot dictate that public expression of prayer, for
example, be removed from the public arena, such as high school football game,
etc.
Mr. Sharpe learned
in his role as Chairman of the Wise County Republican Party 2000-2008 that part
of the responsibilities was to mentor and inform candidates running for
political office. Various training tools
were developed then and have been refined further in more recent times.
A special class
was created at the request of one of his teenage granddaughters, which is displayed here. Subsequently, Mr. Sharpe developed an eleven-chapter
course on government structures, how they operate, how people in the structures
get there, and how can citizens be participative in various aspects of the
governance of our nation. Here is that
course.
James Madison, who later became
President of the United States, took copious notes of the debates Constitutional
Convention,
and had much to do with fashioning the wording of the Constitution.
Madison's important contribution to the overall creation of the Constitution
earned him the nickname "Father
of the Constitution" later in life. He is the 32nd cousin, once removed to
Mr. Sharpe. Madison is the 3rd
cousin, seven times removed to Steve Westmoreland, the son-in-law of Mr.
Sharpe.
Texas Governor Rick Perry
(currently the U.S. Secretary of Energy, serving President Donald Trump)
commissioned Mr. Sharpe in 2004 as an Admiral
in the Texas Navy. Texas Admirals often affiliate with the Texas Navy
Association, the historical educational organization promoting
knowledge about the Texas Navy of the Republic of Texas 1836-1845, as well as
other Texas Navy Squadrons. Mrs. Sharpe (Suzanne Margaret Boggess Sharpe)
was commissioned an Admiral in the Texas Navy by Governor Gregg Abbott in 2013.
Mr. Sharpe is a 1957
graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas; he
attended Austin College in Sherman, Texas
1957-1959 and is a 1962 BBA graduate of the University of Texas
at Austin. He’s expected to be scheduled in the 2018-19
school year at Austin College to be a guest lecturer from the course
materials
composed for political involvements by citizens and the need for their
understanding government structures.
He and his wife,
Suzanne, raised two sons and a daughter. Their children are third generation
graduates from the University of Texas in the family, both of their Sharpe grandparents
having graduated in 1925 and in 1926. They enjoy seven grandchildren
among their children, 24 great nieces and nephews and seven great, great nieces
and nephews (who are eighth generation Texans).
Mrs. Sharpe, also in
active in political service, has served as election clerks, as President of Wise Republican Women, the Wise County
affiliate of the Texas Federation of Republican Women. She currently serves WRW as its Secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe are
members of Eagle Mountain International Church in Fort
Worth. They reside on 10 acres in Aurora, Wise County, Texas. His hobby is the
pursuit of genealogy and the study of history. Other biographical sketch information is available on the
Who is “D. A. Sharpe?” page.
Suzanne Boggess Sharpe
805 Derting
Road East
Aurora, TX 76078-3712
817-504-6508
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