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Keith Valigura

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ104961933 ↗
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Keith Wayne Valigura (November 6, 1957 – January 12, 2021) was an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives from the 16th district from 1985 to 1991.

Valigura was born in College Station, Texas, and graduated from Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas. He graduated from Sam Houston State University and went to Texas A&M University. Valigura graduate from South Texas College of Law Houston and practiced law in Montgomery County, Texas. He died on January 12, 2021, in Conroe, Texas, at the age of 63.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keith Valigura” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.