Texas' senior Senator and San Antonio resident John Cornyn is on President Trump's short list to succeed James Comey as head of the FBI,Fox News reports.
Cornyn, 65, was born in Houston, but attended St. Mary's University and Trinity University, and served as a State District Judge in Bexar County from 1984-1990.
Cornyn, a Republican, was then elected to the Texas Supreme Court and later as Texas Attorney General, before succeeding Phil Gramm in the U.S. Senate in 2002.
Cornyn would not be the first San Antonian to head the FBI. William Sessions was a federal judge in San Antonio when he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to head the bureau in 1987. Ironically, Sessions was the only FBI director other than Comey to be fired by the President. Sessions was fired by President Clinton in 1993
.Other people on the short list include former New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly and South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy.
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