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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 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.
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...
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...
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.
William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr. (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was the 42nd and 44th Governor of Texas, serving from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991. Clements was the first Republican to have served as governor of the U.S. state of Texas since Reconstruction.
May 29, 2011 · AUSTIN (AP) – Former Gov. Bill Clements, who in 1979 became the first Republican elected governor in Texas since Reconstruction and whose belief that state government should operate like a big...
May 30, 2011 · AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Gov. Bill Clements, who in 1979 became the state's first Republican elected governor since Reconstruction, has died at 94, his family said.
Nov 11, 2015 · William Perry “Bill” Clements, Jr., businessman, philanthropist, and forty-second and forty-fourth governor of Texas, was born on April 13, 1917, in Dallas, to William Perry Clements, Sr., and Evelyn (Cammack) Clements. He graduated from Highland Park High School in 1934.
