John Tower

John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was a conservative Republican United States Senator from Houston, Texas. He served in the Senate from 1961 to his retirement in 1984, after which he served as chairman of the "Tower Commission" that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. He was the first Republican Senator elected from Texas since Reconstruction.

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Tower was born September 29, 1925 to Joe and Beryl Tower in Houston, Texas. His father was a Methodist minister. Tower traveled where his father preached, attending public schools in East Texas and graduating in Beaumont, Texas in the spring of 1942. He was active in politics as a child; at the age of 13 he passed out handbills for the campaign of liberal Democrat and future senator Ralph Yarborough while he was running for attorney-general. Yarborough and Tower would later be paired as Texas's senate delegation, though of opposing political perspectives. He entered Southwestern University that same year in Georgetown, Texas, and met future president and political opponent Lyndon Johnson in 1942 on a campus visit while Johnson was the local congressman.

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