Joe Frankston

Joseph "Joe" Luke Frankston (Born: 29 August, 1968) is the son of U.S. Senator from Texas, Howard Frankston and a candidate in the 2020 U.S. Senate Election in Texas.

Until October of 2019, Joe Frankston was a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force, serving as the commander of the Air Education and Training Center near San Antonio, Texas.

Early Life
Conceived while his father was on leave and stateside, he was born after a 14 hour labor in Lubbock, Texas. He first met his father three weeks later when Howard was returned stateside and as his father moved up the ranks and gained further control over his assignments, Joe and Howard became significantly closer. Maria was stringently certain that neither she or Joe should trail Howard and hence, Joe was educated and raised mostly in Lubbock.

Military Service
He was admitted into the United States Air Force Academy outside Colorado Springs in 1986, graduating as a Second Lieutenant in 1990, he scored proved as capable a pilot as his father. He has since served in the United States Air Force, he flew significant combat missions in U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan until being elevated to higher ranks, and until 2010 spent most of his time in service within Afghanistan. In 2011 he was transferred to Langley as a Brigadier General in the Air Combat Command. Subsequently moving to command NORAD in 2014 and most recently becoming the Lieutenant General in command of the AETC at Randolph Air Force Base (in 2018). He was confirmed by unanimous voice vote in all three instances of promotion to Lieutenant General, Major General or Brigadier General. Throughout his time in the Air Force he has served in both Gulf Wars and while Major General until 2018, was the Chief of Staff at NORAD. When promoted to Lieutenant General, he was given command of the Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

Politics
He has never been registered to any political party but has consistently voted throughout his entire life for the candidate closer to his heart. He had considered running for his father's old Congressional seat in 2018 but opted against this as he lived near San Antonio, in Bexar County and was equally unwilling to challenge for Texas' 21st Congressional District.

In 2019 he announced his candidacy for his father's old Senate seat that he was relinquishing.

Personal Life
In 2009, he lost his first wife in a car crash. He has since remarried. He has three children, a son and daughter both in the Air Force while his other daughter runs a marketing firm.