Bill Text: TX HR2474 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the election of John Tower as the first Texas Republican to serve in the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-25 - Filed [HR2474 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HR2474-Introduced.html
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| By: Branch | H.R. No. 2474 | |
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| WHEREAS, May 27, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the | ||
| election of John Tower as the Lone Star State's first Republican | ||
| United States senator since Reconstruction; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Born in Houston on September 29, 1925, John Goodwin | ||
| Tower became active in the Republican Party when he was an assistant | ||
| professor of political science at Midwestern University; he served | ||
| as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1956, and in | ||
| 1960 his party nominated him to run for the U.S. Senate; and | ||
| WHEREAS, When Lyndon B. Johnson resigned from the senate to | ||
| assume the vice presidency, Senator Tower won the seat in a special | ||
| election on May 27, 1961; many hailed this event as heralding the | ||
| advent of two-party politics in Texas; Senator Tower was reelected | ||
| three times, and over the course of his 24-year career in Congress, | ||
| he wielded enormous influence in a variety of domestic and foreign | ||
| policy issues, particularly through his service on powerful banking | ||
| committees and on the Senate Armed Services Committee; moreover, he | ||
| took a leadership role in Republican politics at the state and | ||
| national level; after retiring from the U.S. Senate in 1985, he went | ||
| on to serve as the nation's chief negotiator at the Strategic Arms | ||
| Reduction Talks in Geneva, and he led the group known as the Tower | ||
| Commission in an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Senator John Tower perished in a commuter plane | ||
| crash in 1991, but his accomplishments have resonated through the | ||
| years, and his election to the U.S. Senate continues to be regarded | ||
| as a turning point in the political history of Texas; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby commemorate the 50th anniversary of John Tower's | ||
| election to the United States Senate. | ||
