Chris Younts (R-TX-11)

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Chris Younts

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Chris W. Younts 

Chris YountsCongressional Candidate Texas District 11

Biography of Chris Younts from Younts for Congress Committee

On April 20, 1963 Chris was born to C.W. and Betty Younts in Tem­ple, Texas. His fam­ily moved to San Angelo when he was 5 years old and he has lived in the Con­cho Val­ley ever since. Chris has been mar­ried to his high school sweet­heart, Tara, for 28 years and together they have raised two won­der­ful chil­dren, Matt and Mandy.

From very early on, Chris devel­oped a love for the agri­cul­ture indus­try and resolved to be a part of it. Through­out his life Chris has been involved with rais­ing cat­tle in part­ner­ship with his father and grand­fa­ther, and from 1990 to 2003 Chris and his grand­fa­ther ran a pecan orchard on Cop­peras Creek in Comanche County Texas.

In Jan­u­ary 1990 Chris joined the San Angelo Fire Department. Much to his dismay, after suf­fer­ing a bro­ken leg in a ranch­ing acci­dent, he was forced to retire in Octo­ber 2000. While agri­cul­ture was always his first love, Chris believes he has had no greater honor than to serve his fel­low cit­i­zens and rel­ishes the expe­ri­ence of his fire fight­ing career as well as the many life­long friend­ships he has devel­oped as a result.

After his grand­fa­ther and busi­ness part­ner passed away in 2003, Chris and other inter­ested fam­ily mem­bers decided to sell the cat­tle and pecan busi­nesses and free Chris up to focus on the insur­ance agency pur­chased in part­ner­ship with his brother Craig.

As an Inde­pen­dent Agent pro­vid­ing for the needs of his fel­low cit­i­zens of the Con­cho Val­ley, Chris has been afforded the unique oppor­tu­nity to view the insur­ance indus­try from the inside. This per­spec­tive allows Chris to under­stand fully the aspects of the insur­ance indus­try that are effec­tive and have con­tributed to the over­all pros­per­ity of our nation. Equally as impor­tant, he has gained well sea­soned knowl­edge of those aspects which have proven inef­fec­tive and should be addressed.

After pas­sage of the TARP bailout in Oct. 2008, con­cern about the direc­tion our nation was tak­ing prompted Chris to join with other con­cerned busi­ness own­ers in form­ing the San Angelo Tea Party.

Chris was active in YMCA youth and Lit­tle League pro­grams when his son was younger and con­tin­ues to sup­port the YMCA. Chris and Tara are mem­bers of the Grape Creek Bap­tist Church. Chris believes each indi­vid­ual and our nation as a whole can only ben­e­fit from the preser­va­tion of God, and the guid­ance He has provided, in our society.

For Chris, it is the val­ues of grow­ing up in Texas and the impor­tance of pre­serv­ing these val­ues for gen­er­a­tions to come which have led him to ask for your sup­port as he endeav­ors to give a true voice to the con­ser­v­a­tive peo­ple of the 11th District.