---
type: Person
title: "Charles Schwertner"
description: "TX Senate District 5 — TX State Senate District 5"
role: "TX Senate District 5"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "TX"
district: "TX State Senate District 5"
represents: "us/states/tx/districts/senate/5"
tenure:
  start: "2013-01-08"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "f4265192-08a2-4336-93c2-a7f2e78ba867"
  office: "309b86a4-f106-4289-8cfa-3315c3e58cc9"
  tenure: "8a7215f2-ed72-4598-a836-31aa1ac8b53b"
  jurisdiction: "06f2d73f-7dd9-4321-8118-6cae52bd0928"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, tx]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Charles Schwertner

Current TX Senate District 5 (TX State Senate District 5).

Represents [TX State Senate District 5](/us/states/tx/districts/senate/5.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).