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==Surprise death==
==Surprise death==
Tower was first married to the former Joza "Lou" Bullington (1920-2001), a distant relative of former Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee Orville Bullington of Wichita Falls, where the Towers had lived in the early years of their marriage while she was their church pianist and he was a political science professor at Midwestern State University. The couple had three daughters. Lou often campaigned with Tower in his the early races. In 1977, Tower wed the former Lila Burt Cummings, from whom he was divorced in 1986 in a bitter split.
Tower was first married to the former Joza "Lou" Bullington (1920-2001), who was five years his senior and a distant relative of former Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee Orville Bullington of Wichita Falls. The Towers resided in Wichita Falls in the early years of their marriage while she was their church pianist, and he was a political science professor at Midwestern State University. After he became senator, they relocated to Dallas. The couple had three daughters. Lou often campaigned with Tower in his the early races. In 1977, the year after his divorce from Lou, John Tower wed the former Lila Burt Cummings, from whom he was also divorced in a bitter split in 1986.
Tower died with one of his daughters, Marian, in the 1991 crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 in Brunswick, Georgia, while the two were on a promotional tour for Tower's ''Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir'', published a few months before the crash.
Tower died with his middle daughter, Marian, in the 1991 crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 in Brunswick, Georgia, while the two were on a promotional tour for Tower's ''Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir'', published a few months before the crash.
He donated his papers to his alma mater, Southwestern University.<ref>{{cite web|title=John G. Tower Papers|publisher=Southwestern University|url=http://southwestern.edu/infoservices/departments/specialcollections/tower/index.php|accessdate=November 15, 2012}}</ref>
He donated his papers to his alma mater, Southwestern University.<ref>{{cite web|title=John G. Tower Papers|publisher=Southwestern University|url=http://southwestern.edu/infoservices/departments/specialcollections/tower/index.php|accessdate=November 15, 2012}}</ref>
John and Lou Tower and daughter Marian are interred at Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. John and Lou are not buried side by side. A cenotaph in Tower's honor was erected at the Texas State Cemetery in the capital city of [[Austin]].
John and Lou Tower and daughter Marian are interred at Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. John and Lou are not buried side by side. A cenotaph in Tower's honor was erected at the Texas State Cemetery in the capital city of [[Austin]].
Tower's impact on Texas politics continues through the success of three prominent Republicans, [[John Cornyn]], who holds the old Tower seat, former state Representative Dan H. Branch of Dallas, who chairs the board of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at [[Southern Methodist University]] and lost an intra-party challenge to [[Ken Paxton]] in 2014 for the office of Texas attorney general, and [[Joe Straus]] of San Antonio, the Texas House Speaker since 2009 who holds his position through an alliance with all of the chamber's Democratic members. Straus was once a youthful chauffeur for Senator Tower.
Tower's impact on Texas politics continues through the success of three prominent Republicans, [[John Cornyn]], who holds the old Tower seat, former state Representative Dan H. Branch of Dallas, who chairs the board of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at [[Southern Methodist University]] and lost an intra-party challenge to [[Ken Paxton]] in 2014 for the office of Texas attorney general, and [[Joe Straus]] of San Antonio, the Texas House Speaker since 2009 who holds his position through an alliance with all of the chamber's Democratic members. Straus was once a youthful chauffeur for Senator Tower.
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