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May 27, 1961

Texas elects first Republican senator since Reconstruction

On this day in 1961, Texas voters made John Tower the first Republican senator elected in the state since 1870. Tower, born in Houston in 1925, ran unsuccessfully for state representative in 1954 and (more...)

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