1978 ROBERT BOB KRUEGER Texas US SENATE Political BROCHURE Senator NEW BRAUNFELS

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Robert Charles Krueger
(born September 19, 1935) is an American politician and former
U.S. Representative
and
U.S. Senator
from Texas, a former
U.S. Ambassador
, and a member of the
Democratic Party
. As of 2016, he is the last Democrat to serve as a Senator from Texas.
Early life
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Born in
New Braunfels, Texas
, Krueger earned a B.A. from
Southern Methodist University
in 1957 and an
M.A.
from
Duke University
in 1958. He went to
Merton College, Oxford
, earning a D.Phil. in English literature with a thesis entitled
The poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke
.
[1]
He taught English literature as a professor and was later vice provost and Dean of the
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
at
Duke University
. His edition of the poems of Sir John Davies was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1975. Krueger held business positions as chairman of the board of Comal Hosiery Mills and managing partner of the Krueger Brangus Ranch before entering elective office.
Political career
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Krueger was elected to the 94th and 95th United States Congresses, serving from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1979. Krueger was initially elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives
to represent
Texas's 21st congressional district
, then the largest congressional district in Texas, stretching from northern
San Antonio
to
Big Bend National Park
in far west Texas.
In the
general election
, Krueger defeated
Republican
Doug Harlan
of San Antonio, who had also run unsuccessfully against Fisher in 1972. Coincidentally, Harlan like Krueger had obtained a master's degree from Duke University. He then received a law degree from the
University of Texas School of Law
and became heavily involved in Republican Party consulting work.
[2]
Krueger was part of the large "Watergate Class" of 1974, many of whom were Democrats who owed their election to the scandal that brought the resignation of President
Richard Nixon
three months before the election. Krueger was reelected for a second House term in 1976 along with the election of
Jimmy Carter
as president. Krueger challenged incumbent Republican
John Tower
in 1978 for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, but Krueger narrowly lost the contest by 0.3%.
In 1984, he ran again for the U.S. Senate. Tower decided to retire but Krueger lost in the Democratic primary, caught in the middle between the more liberal State Senator
Lloyd Doggett
and the more conservative U.S. Representative
Kent Hance
. In 2010, Krueger's campaign was named by the
Houston Chronicle
as the ninth-worst in Texas' modern political history, saying: "Caught in the middle, Krueger seemed like a bland centrist facing a fiery liberal and a folksy conservative. He ended up finishing third, out of the runoff and out of luck." From 1985 to 1989, he also wrote a regular column on a broad range of public affairs issues, which was carried in newspapers in San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, and Corpus Christi, Texas.
In 1990, Krueger returned to elective office in Texas, serving on the
Texas Railroad Commission
, which regulated oil and gas as well as the rail system in the state. In his candidacy, Krueger received the most votes of any contested candidate on the primary ballot of either major party and defeated his general election opponent by a 16 percent margin.
Krueger was selected by Governor
Ann Richards
in 1993 to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of four-term incumbent and
1988
Democratic
Vice Presidential
nominee
Lloyd Bentsen
, who became
Secretary of the Treasury
in President
Clinton
's cabinet. He served from January 21, 1993 until June 14, 1993. Krueger lost the June 1993 special election runoff for the remainder of the term ending January 4, 1995 by a 2-to-1 margin to the popular
Texas State Treasurer
, Republican
Kay Bailey Hutchison
. In 2010, Krueger's campaign was named by the same
Houston Chronicle
article as the single worst in Texas' modern political history.
[3]
Ambassadorial career
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On October 23, 1979, Krueger was appointed by President Carter as Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Mexican Affairs at the Department of State and served the remainder of the Carter presidency until February 1, 1981.
[1]
President Bill Clinton named Krueger as Ambassador to
Burundi
, which had been beset with violence in recent preceding years and whose ethnic make-up was the same as that of adjoining
Rwanda
, whose Hutu and Tutsi tribes had experienced a bloody civil war only months before Krueger began his service in May 1994. His family was initially not allowed to join him in Burundi due to the threat of violence. He served in Burundi until 1995, when his convoy was ambushed in Cibitoke province. He was traveling on a bare highway in
Cibitoke
, when gunmen with
AK-47s
attacked the motorcade, before being diverted by
Diplomatic Security Service
agents Chris Reilly and Larry Salmon.
[4]
In 1996, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to
Botswana
and concurrently Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Southern African Development Community. He held those posts until 2000, when he became a Visiting Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and began to write a memoir of his time in central Africa. It was published as
From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide
by the University of Texas Press in September 2007.
[2]
Later years
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Krueger with Marc Holzer and
Edmund Janniger
at the
Rutgers Council on Public and International Affairs
Krueger served in several academic lectureship positions at the
University of North Texas
(then known as North Texas State University), the
University of Texas at Austin
,
Rice University
,
Southern Methodist University
,
Texas State University
, and currently,
Texas Tech University
, following his service in federal government. Krueger delivered the Inaugural Distinguished Lecture of the
Rutgers Council on Public and International Affairs
on December 9, 2014.
[5]
Family
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Krueger is married to the former Kathleen Tobin of
Bandera
, Texas, who co-authored the book
From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi
, and served two terms as a City Council Member in New Braunfels, Texas, and as Mayor Pro-tem. The Kruegers have three children. Several years ago
[
when?
]
, Krueger and his family were the victims of a stalker.
[6]
[7]
Their plight led to the passage of anti-stalking legislation in Texas.
See also
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Carl W. A. Groos House
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