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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasTOWER, John Goodwin
(1925—1991)
Senate Years of Service:
1961-1985
Party:
Republican
TOWER, 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.
Green, George N., and John J. Kushma. “John Tower.” In Profiles in Power: Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington
, edited by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., and Michael L. Collins. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1993.
King, James D., and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr. “The Rejection of a Cabinet Nomination: The Senate and John Tower.” In Bose, Meena and Rosanna Perotti, eds., From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush
. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002): 369-90.
Knaggs, John R. Two-Party Texas: The John Tower Era, 1961-1984.
Austin: Eakin Press, 1985.
Swint, Kerwin C. “In this Corner, Little Lord Fauntleroy,” in Mudslingers: The Top 25 Negative Political Campaigns of All Time
. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006: 101-111.
Tower, John G. “Congress Versus the President: The Formulation and Implementation of American Foreign Policy.” Foreign Affairs
60 (Winter 1981-1982): 229-46.
___. Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir
. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991.
___. “The Conservative Worker in Britain: Why a Working Man Supports the Tories.” Master’s thesis, Southern Methodist University, 1934.
___. “F.E.P.C.—Some Practical Considerations.” Federal Bar Journal
24 (Winter 1964): 87-92.
___. “Present Defense Budget Problems.” In The Defense of America: From Assured Destruction to Assured Survival
, edited by Albion Knight and David S. Sullivan, pp. 9-22. Houston: Texas Policy Institute, 1983.
___. A Program for Conservatives
. New York: Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1962.
___. “SALT II and the Security of the West.” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
2 (Summer 1979): 1-17.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Memorial Tributes: John Goodwin Tower, 1925-1991, Late a Senator from Texas
. 102d Cong., 2d sess., 1992. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1994.
___. Tributes to the Honorable John Tower of Texas in the United States Senate, Upon the Occasion of His Retirement from the Senate
. 98th Cong., 2d sess., 1984. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1984.
Welch, June Rayfield. “Tower Was the First Republican Senator Since Reconstruction.” In The Texas Senator
, pp. 148-49. Dallas: G.L.A. Press, 1978.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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