EducationPrairie View A&M University (undergraduate degree)

Notable personal detailsRobert Thomas is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Texas’s 22nd Congressional District (2026 cycle). He has described himself as a former NASA systems engineer and project manager with more than three decades of experience on U.S. space missions. His campaign materials state he earned an undergraduate degree from Prairie View A&M University and continued studies at the University of Houston, and he has emphasized infrastructure investment, jobs, education, health care access, and flood mitigation/transportation improvements as priorities.