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May 30, 2011 · Guest Column: Why Bill Clements Mattered. He served as a metaphor for Texas in transition. From the boom and bust of the oil industry to the state’s political makeover, he personified the ...
Clements served as deputy U.S. secretary of defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations. Clements stunned political observers when he won an upset victory to become the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
May 31, 2011 · May 30, 2011 at 9:52 p.m. EDT. Bill Clements, a brash Republican millionaire who helped break Democrats’ century-long hold on Texas politics when he was elected governor in 1978, died May 29 at...
May 30, 2011 · Republican Party. (CNN) -- William Clements, the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction, died Sunday at the age of 94. Two of his successors in Austin -- George W. Bush and...
May 29, 2011 · AUSTIN (AP) – Former Gov. Bill Clements, who in 1979 became the first Republican elected governor in Texas since Reconstruction and whose belief that state government should operate like a big...
05/29/2011 07:13 PM EDT. Gov. Bill Clements, a Republican whose election to the Texas statehouse in 1978 broke a century of Democratic dominance, died of natural causes Sunday in Dallas. He...
May 30, 2011 · AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former Texas Governor Bill Clements, who was the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he took office in 1979, has died at the age of 94. His...
