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John Goodwin Tower was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Texa
Tower in 1978
Tower in the Southwestern University yearbook, 1948
Tower delivers the Tower Report to President Reagan in the White House Cabinet Room, Edmund Muskie at right, 1987.
John Tower cenotaph at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas
Members of the Cabinet of the United States are nominated by the president and are then confirmed or rejected by the Senate. Listed below are unsuccessful cabinet nominees—that is, individuals who wer
John Tower
…the Contras. In 1989, incoming president George H. W. Bush chose Tower as his nominee for United States Secretary of Defense, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate. After the defeat, Tower chaired the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Tower died in the 1991 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 crash…
Roger B. Taney was the first nominee to a Cabinet position to be rejected.
Caleb Cushing's Cabinet nomination was rejected three times in one day.
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