# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kent-hance
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:02:26.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kent-hance"
name: "Kent Hance"
slug: "kent-hance"
description: "Kent Ronald Hance is an American politician and lawyer who is the former Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. In his role, he oversaw Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He is also a lobbyist and lawyer. Hance is the only person to defeat George W. Bush in an election. and became a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from West Texas, having served from 1979 to 1985. After his congressional service, he switched to the Republican Party and in both 1986 and 1990 ran for governor of Texas, losing in the primary election."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kent_Hance_1979_congressional_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.54
  momentum:             0.007880220646178094
  historical:           7.912386666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Kent Hance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "كينت هانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "کنت هانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hance"
    title: "Kent Hance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hance"
    title: "Kent Hance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hance"
    title: "Kent Hance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%98_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "קנט הנס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hance"
    title: "Kent Hance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hance"
    title: "Kent Hance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1629347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump