Sunday, May 29, 2011

Bill Clements, R. I. P.

The Raw Story: "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.

Clements, who served two terms as governor, from 1979 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1991, was remembered by current Governor Rick Perry as 'the father of the modern day Republican party' in the state."

1 comment:

Seepy Benton said...

I was driving down Memorial in Houston one day in the late seventies when I saw an old man standing in the middle of the road trying to stop cars and shake hands. It was Bill Clements making his first run for governor. If my brakes hadn't been so good, I could have changed history that day