I, John Fitzgerald Carson, was born on July 4, 1969 in the modest West Texas town of San Angelo. I was the oldest of 4, 2 boys and 2 girls,
in a family that could barely afford to put food on the table much less
indulge in the extravagances of toys and other childhood amusements.
My father, John Sr., was a hard working ranchhand while my mother,
Mary, was a hard working stay at home mom. They managed to scrape by while I learned the value of hard work and commitment to a task.
When I was 12 my life was dramatically changed when my father won
the lottery. My family was, in one day, turned from dirt poor to
filthy rich but none of us ever lost our hard working values that
we learned while being poor.
    
     In 1987 I left home to attend Texas A&M University where I
received bachelors degrees in petroleum engineering and art history.
After graduation, I volunteered for the Marine Corps and fought in
Iraq for 2 years as part of Desert Storm where I earned several medals
for bravery and service and was credited with over 150 enemy kills.
Upon finishing my tour of duty I continued my education at Texas Tech
University where I got my masters in business administration. While at
Tech I met my future wife Jackie Owens. Jackie-O, as I like to call
her, is a bright and beautiful woman who would go on to receive a
degree in molecular biology and a certificate in elementary education
which she would put to good use by becoming a kindergarten teacher.
Upon graduating from Texas Tech I went on to attend law school at the
University of Texas at Austin.

     After college I went on to work as a lawyer for the ACLU for 2
years where I won many major cases in defense of peoples civil
rights. I felt an obligation to stand up for the little guy and make
sure that the system did not take away a person's right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without proper evidence and
procedure. I then accepted a job as a prosecutor in the City of Dallas.
I quickly climbed the ladder in the District Attorneys Office by
winning case after case. I asked for and received the death penalty for
87 people that I prosecuted with only 32 of them later being found to
be truly innocent. Luckily only 13 of the men to be found innocent had
already been put to death so we saved more than half of them which I
see as a huge success. I am now asking for the privilege to be your
next Texas State Senator from District 12.