Who is Avur Will Hurd? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Robert Hurd, Mary Alice Hurd, Chuck, Elizabeth, Lynlie Wallace, Canseco, Pete Gallego and the early life and education of the former CIA agent.
Will Hurd also known as William Ballard Hurd is a former CIA agent turned politician from Texas, America.
He represented Texas’s 23rd congressional district in the United States from 2015 to 2021.
Will Hurd has announced his intention to run for President of the United States in 2024.
Will Hurd’s Net Worth
As of 2023, Will Hurd’s net worth is expected to be $6 million.
He has made more than $3 million in cybersecurity contracts, mostly with companies in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Europe.
Hurd has also made major stock market investments with the advice of Wall Street specialists, which have resulted in significant gains.
Early Life and Education
Will Hurd was born in San Antonio, Texas on August 19, 1977.
He is the son of Robert Hurd, a black father and Mary Alice Hurd, a white mother. He has two siblings; his brother Chuck, and his sister Elizabeth.
Hurd attended John Marshall High School in Leon Valley, Texas, and Texas A&M University, where he graduated and was elected student body president.
Hurd presided over the student body when the Aggie Bonfire disaster occurred in 1999.
He studied computer science for his major and international relations for his minor.
According to a 2017 Politico report, he was dating Lynlie Wallace, Lyle Larson’s chief of staff. Hurd and Wallace were wedded on December 31, 2022.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Will Hurd worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for nine years, from 2000 to 2009.
Throughout his tour of duty, his principal base of operations was Washington, D.C., but he also served as an operations officer in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
He is fluent in Urdu, Pakistan’s national and common language, where he conducted secret operations.
Hurd moved to Texas after leaving the CIA, where he worked as a senior adviser for FusionX, a cybersecurity firm, and a partner at Crumpton Group LLC, a strategic consulting firm.
Political Career
Will Hurd’s interest in politics originated from one of his duties at the CIA where he was required to brief Congressmen.
On roll-call votes in 2015, He voted 96% in favor of the party’s position. He is frequently referred to as a Republican in the middle.
As of August 2019, he had supported Trump’s agenda in 81.3% of votes and voted 82% of the time with his party in the 116th Congress.
Hurd made his announcement on November 19, 2009, seeking the Republican nomination in Texas’s 23rd congressional district, which is two-thirds Hispanic.
The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Hurd on February 15, 2010. He won the most votes in the March 2 primary, but not enough to win, so a runoff election was held on April 13, 2010.
In the 2014 elections for the United States House of Representatives, Hurd ran for the 23rd district once more.
He defeated Canseco in the primary following a runoff. Hurd beat Gallego in the general election, making it the third time in a row that an incumbent in the district has lost their seat.
Hurd was sworn in as a representative for the United States on January 3, 2015.
He was third among freshman House members in terms of the number of measures passed during his first term. He worked extensively on bicameral cybersecurity and technology bills.
Hurd won the Republican primary election on March 1, 2016, defeating William Peterson with 39,762 votes (82.2%) to 8,590 (17.8%), and was renominated for a second term.
Pete Gallego, a former congressman, was his opponent once more, and the election was predicted to be one of the most close in the nation.
Gallego made an effort to link Hurd to Trump during the campaign because the latter was despised by Texas Hispanics.
Hurd however, defeated Gallego by 110,577 votes (48.3%) to 107,526 (47%), with San Antonio Libertarian Ruben Schmidt Corvalan receiving the remaining 10,862 votes (4.7%).
Hurd received 80% of the vote on March 7, 2018, and so won the GOP primary.
Hurd joined the German Marshall Fund and the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung’s (BKHS) Transatlantic Task Force in 2019. Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger co-chair the group.
Hurd decided not to run for office again in Congress in 2020.
2024 presidential campaign
Will Hurd officially declared his candidature for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2024 election on June 22, 2023.
On August 23, 2023, the first Republican presidential debate took place; however, he was ineligible to participate.
Instead, he gave a live interview to POLITICO throughout the debate, sharing his thoughts on the proceedings as they were happening.
He added that he still wanted to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine and said that none of the contenders had impressed him.
On September 20, 2023, Hurd revealed a comprehensive proposal for how, if elected president, he would regulate artificial intelligence.
Achievements and Awards
Will Hurd and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii were selected in July 2015 to co-chair the Congressional Future Caucus in lieu of Aaron Schock of Illinois.
Hurd was appointed chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Technology Subcommittee during his first term in office, which is unusual for a new congressman. The committee’s primary area of interest is cybersecurity.
Hurd was a member of the Homeland Security Committee’s Border and Maritime Subcommittee.
For his second term, he was assigned to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, taking Mike Pompeo’s place, who left to become director of the CIA.
Hurd was dubbed “The Most Interesting Man in Congress” by The Daily Dot because of his history as a former undercover covert officer.
Hurd was the sole black Republican in the House of Representatives as of August 2019. According to him, the government’s main function in the lives of African Americans should be to give them the ability to take care of themselves.
Hurd was the sole Republican member of Congress as of January 2019 who represents a district close to the Mexican border.
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