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May 31, 2011 · By James C. McKinley Jr. May 30, 2011. HOUSTON — Bill Clements, a brash oilman who founded an international drilling company before going into politics and breaking the Democrats’ stranglehold ...
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.
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. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark Wells White, a Democrat who defeated Clements in the 1982 election only to lose his campaign ...
May 30, 2011 · Dallas, Texas. William Clements Obituary. Former Gov. William Perry 'Bill' Clements, Jr., the first Republican elected to serve as Texas' chief executive since the Civil War, has died, friends and ...
May 29, 2011 · He was 94. Clements, who served two terms as governor despite losing his first re-election bid, died Sunday at a Dallas-area hospital, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said. A former Texas oilman, Clements ...
May 30, 2011 · AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - 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 29, 2011 · Clements, 94, had been in ill health since suffering a stroke a year ago, family friends had said. He reportedly died at 1:26 p.m. of natural causes at the UT Southwestern Medical Center Hospital ...
