People from Archer County, Texas - People from Wichita Falls, Texas, Tommy Tune, John Tower, Paul Eggers, Orville Bullington, Ray Farabee (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: People from Wichita Falls, Texas, Tommy Tune, John Tower, Paul Eggers, Orville Bullington, Ray Farabee, Greg Abbott, Frank Kell Cahoon, Larry McMurtry, John R. Kane, James Allred, Emanuel Cleaver, Lindy Berry, Helen J. Farabee, Dave Mitchell, Mary Leona Gage, Frances Reid, Skandor Akbar, Richard Mullane, David Farabee, Thomas W. Fowler, Gabriel P. Disosway, Aaron Taylor, Phyllis Coates, Dave Willis, Cowboy Morgan Evans, David Nelson, Clint Longley, Chase Wright, Frank N. Ikard, Byron Schlomach, Khari Long, Allen Rucker, Scott Nicolas, Mike Montgomery, Brad Furnish, Ed Neal, William Hauptman. Excerpt: John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 - April 5, 1991) was the first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. Tower was born in Houston to Joe Z. Tower (1898-1970) and Beryl Tower (1898-1990). Joe Tower was a Methodist minister. The young John Tower traveled wherever his father pastored. He attended public schools in east Texas and graduated in Beaumont, the seat of Jefferson County, in southeast Texas in the spring of 1942. Tower was active in politics as a child; at the age of thirteen, he passed out handbills for the campaign of liberal Democrat and future U.S. Senator Ralph William Yarborough while Yarborough was running for Texas attorney general. Yarborough and Tower would later be paired as Texas's Senate delegation, though of opposing political perspectives. He entered Southwestern University in Georgetown (Williamson County near Austin) that same year and met future U.S. President and political opponent Lyndon Baines Johnson on a campus visit while Johnson was the local congressman. Tower left college in the su...