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William Perry Clements Jr. (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991.
May 29, 2011 · Bill Clements, the first Republican elected governor of Texas since Reconstruction, died in 2011 at age 94. He was a brusque and colorful oilman who sparked tort reform, appointed Republicans to the Supreme Court and helped build the GOP infrastructure in Texas.
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May 31, 2011 · HOUSTON — Bill Clements, a brash oilman who founded an international drilling company before going into politics and breaking the Democrats’ stranglehold on the Texas governor’s office in 1978,...
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May 30, 2011 · He set Texas on a course of political realignment as the first Republican elected governor since Reconstruction, becoming the bridge between what once was a Democratic...
Learn about the life and career of Bill Clements, the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction. Find out how he rose from oil-field worker to businessman and politician, and what he accomplished in his two terms.
May 31, 2011 · 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 a Dallas area hospital. He...
William P. Clements, Jr. | Biography. Texans familiar with the name William P. (Bill) Clements, Jr. know it because of Clements' breakthrough election in 1978 as the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction.
