 Nixon did not seek reelection to a seventh House term in 2006 because he ran instead unsuccessfully for the District 7 seat in the Texas State Senate.The position was instead won by the radio commentator and businessman Dan Patrick, a Republican candidate for state lieutenant governor against the incumbent David Dewhurst in the May 27, 2014 runoff election.Nixon spent at least part of his childhood in Corpus Christi, Texas, before he moved with his parents and three sisters to the Memorial and Tanglewood areas of Houston.