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John Tower
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 on January 3, 1985, after which time he was appointed as the chairman of the
Reagan
-appointed
Tower Commission
that investigated the
Iran-Contra Affair
. He was
George H. W. Bush
's nominee for
Secretary of Defense
in 1989 but was rejected by the Senate, 53–47.
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