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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 · Former Texas Gov. William "Bill" Clements Jr., who broke the Democratic Party's century-long hold on the Governor's Mansion with his election 33 years ago, died Sunday. He was 94, had suffered...
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,...
Nov 11, 2015 · William Perry Clements Jr., suffered from declining health including prostate cancer. He died in Dallas on May 29, 2011, at the age of ninety-four, following an emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine, and was buried at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas.
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...
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 was 94.
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...
