| LC control no. | n 84149499 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991 |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) Dallas (Tex.) |
| Birth date | 19250929 |
| Death date | 19910405 |
| Place of birth | Houston (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Brunswick (Ga.) |
| Field of activity | politics government |
| Affiliation | United States. Navy Southwestern University (Georgetown, Tex.) Southern Methodist University London School of Economics and Political Science Midwestern University (Wichita Falls, Tex.) United States. Congress. Senate United States. President's Special Review Board United States. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators College teachers |
| Found in | Tributes to the honorable John Tower of Texas in the United States Senate, 1984: t.p. (John Tower of Texas, U. S. Senate) NUCMC data from Sioux City Public Museum for Huff, T.B. Papers, 1907-1968 (John G. Tower) NUCMC file (Tower, John, 1925- ; John Goodwin Tower) Verification, c1992: t.p. (John G. Tower) jkt. (d. April 1991) Biog. dir. of the United States Congress, accessed Apr. 16, 2012 (Tower, John Goodwin, Senator from Texas; b. Houston, Harris County, Tex., Sept. 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; grad. from Southwestern Univ., Georgetown, Tex., 1948, and with a graduate degree from Southern Methodist Univ., 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 U.S. Senate, May 27, 1961, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lyndon B. Johnson for the term ending Jan. 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.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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