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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 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,...
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 · 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...
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 30, 2011 · 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.
Bill and Rita Clements Clements was reelected in 1986, four years after his defeat against Democrat Mark White. In the interim, he had served as chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University, a time at which the school was rocked by a scandal in the football program.
