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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasJohn Goodwin TOWER
(1925-1991)
Senate Years of Service:
1961-1985Party: RepublicanTOWER, John Goodwin, a
Senator from Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., September
29, 1925; educated in the public schools of Houston and Beaumont,
Tex.; enlisted in the Navy during the Second World War in 1943, saw
action in the Pacific, and was discharged with the rank of seaman
first class in 1946; graduated from Southwestern University,
Georgetown, Tex., 1948, and with a graduate degree from Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., 1953; attended London School of
Economics and Political Science; member of the faculty of
Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Tex., 1951-1960; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate, May 27, 1961, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Lyndon B. Johnson for the term
ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966, 1972 and 1978 and served
from June 15, 1961, to January 3, 1985; did not seek reelection;
chairman, Republican Policy Committee (Ninety-third through
Ninety-eighth Congresses), Committee on Armed Services
(Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses); appointed a member
of the United States arms negotiation team in Geneva, Switzerland,
by President Ronald Reagan 1985; chairman, President’s
Special Review Board (“Tower Commission”) 1987;
appointed Secretary of Defense in 1989 by President George Bush but
not confirmed; chairman, President’s Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board 1989; was a resident of Dallas, Tex., until his
death in a plane crash near Brunswick, Ga., April 5, 1991;
interment in Hillcrest Mausoleum, Dallas, Tex.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Tower, John G. A
Program for Conservatives. New York: MacFadden-Bartell Corp.,
1962; Tower, John C. Consequences: A Personal and Political
Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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