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Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford Administration January 30, 1973-January 20, 1977
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William P. Clements, Jr.

Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford Administration

**Full Bio Forthcoming**

 

January 20, 1973-January 20, 1977

 

Attended Southern Methodist University

Served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1941-1945

Founder, Southeast Drilling Company, 1947

Chairman, Board of Governors, Southern Methodist University, 1965-1973

First Republican Governor of Texas since Reconstruction, 1979-1983; 1987-1991