Phil Gramm
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William Philip Gramm is an American economist and politician who represented Texas in both chambers of Congress. Though he began his political career as a Democrat, Gramm switched to the Republican Pa
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Gramm at a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1995
John Tower
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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
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…then faced the Democratic nominee, State Senator Lloyd Doggett of Austin in the general election for the right to succeed retiring Republican Senator John G. Tower. Gramm polled 3,116,348 votes (58.5%) to Doggett's 2,207,557 (41.5%). Gramm was the first U.S. Senate candidate in the history of Texas to receive more…
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