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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr.
| image =
| imagesize = 200
| caption=
| office=42nd and 44th [[Governor]] of [[Texas]]
| term_start=January 20, 1987
| term_end=January 15, 1991
| predecessor=[[Mark White]]
| successor=[[Ann Richards]]
| term_start2=January 16, 1979
| term_end2=January 18, 1983
| predecessor2=[[Dolph Briscoe]]
| successor2=Mark White
| office3=United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
| term_start3=January 30, 1973
| term_end3=January 20, 1977
| president3=[[Richard Nixon]] [[Gerald Ford]]
| predecessor3=Kenneth Rush
| successor3=Charles Duncan, Jr.
| birth_date=April 13, 1917
| birth_place=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
| death_date=May 29, 2011 (aged 94)
| death_place=Dallas, Texas
|resting_place=Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| spouse= (1) Pauline Allen Gill (divorced) 
(2) Rita Crocker Clements
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| children=From first marriage: 
B. Gill Clements (1941–2010) Nancy Clements-Seay 
Stepchildren: 
Dan Bass 
Bonnie Bass-Smith 
Barbara Bass-Moroney 
Jim Bass
| residence=Dallas, Texas
| alma_mater=[[Southern Methodist University]] (dropped out)
| occupation=[[Petroleum]] driller 
[[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] in [[World War II]]
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
}}
'''William Perry Clements, Jr.''', known as '''Bill Clements''' (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, university executive, and [[politician]] from his native [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. After making his fortune in [[petroleum]] through the SEDCO Company, Clements served as the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[governor]] of his state in 105 years, with two nonconsecutive terms from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991.

He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom whom Clements sometimes quarreled. He was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.

In his first attempt at reelection in 1982, the last year that Texas [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] won all statewide offices, Clements was unseated by his political rival, [[Mark White]], then the Texas attorney general. Clements was hurt by a decline that year in the petroleum industry in which he had become a multi-millionaire. Ernest Angelo, a former [[mayor]] of [[Midland]] who was a Texas co-chair of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s attempt in 1976 to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Gerald Ford, said that Clements' defeat in 1982 was his own greatest disappointment in politics even though Angelo himself lost a bid for the Texas State Senate in that same election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo Jr. of Midland and the 96–0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," [West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'', now known as ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 82-83.</ref> Clements, however, turned the tables on White in the 1986 gubernatorial [[general election]], when he won a second term in the office. Clements was considered an [[establishment]] Republican with strong [[conservative]] appeal. He claimed to oppose [[abortion]] except in cases of [[rape]], [[incest]], or if the life of the woman bearing the child would be threatened by carrying the pregnancy to term.

Clements' second term was marred by a [[football]] slush fund scandal at SMU, with questionable payments "phased out" but still continued for some time because pf prior commitments to the athletes. The scandal caused the NCAA to cancel football at SMU in the 1987 season, and team did not compete in 1988 as well. It was not until 2009 that SMU received a subsequent bowl invitation. The isse brough Clements at loggerheads with then SMU President L. Donald Shields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1310625.html|title=Clements apologizes for SMU role; governor fails to name others involved in football payments|author=T. James Munoz|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=March 11, 1987|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref>

The 15-story-high William P. Clements State Office Building at 300 West 15th Street in the capital city of [[Austin]] is named in his honor.

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 Clements' second term was marred by a [[football]] slush fund scandal at SMU, with questionable payments "phased out" but still continued for some time because pf prior commitments to the athletes. The scandal caused the NCAA to cancel football at SMU in the 1987 season, and team did not compete in 1988 as well. It was not until 2009 that SMU received a subsequent bowl invitation. The isse brough Clements at loggerheads with then SMU President L. Donald Shields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1310625.html|title=Clements apologizes for SMU role; governor fails to name others involved in football payments|author=T. James Munoz|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=March 11, 1987|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref>
-In 2010, Clements' son from his first marriage, B. Gill Clements (1941-2010), was murdered at th3e age of sixty-nine at his ranch in Athens in Henderson County.
+In 2010, Clements' son from his first marriage, B. Gill Clements (1941-2010), was murdered at the age of sixty-nine at his ranch in Athens in Henderson County.
 The 15-story-high William P. Clements State Office Building at 300 West 15th Street in the capital city of [[Austin]] is named in his honor.

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 '''William Perry Clements, Jr.''', known as '''Bill Clements''' (April 13, 1917 &ndash; May 29, 2011), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, university executive, and [[politician]] from his native [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. After making his fortune in [[petroleum]] through the SEDCO Company, Clements served as the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[governor]] of his state in 105 years, with two nonconsecutive terms from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991.
-He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom whom Clements sometimes quarreled. For thirty-nine days, he was the acting Secretary of Defense. Clements was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.
+He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom Clements sometimes quarreled. For thirty-nine days, he was the acting Secretary of Defense. Clements was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.
 Clements won his first term as governor in 1978 over the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee, John Luke Hill, who had unseated Governor [[Dolph Briscoe]] in the primary election. In the same [[general election]], [[John Tower]], the first Republican [[U.S. Senator]] to have been popularly elected from Texas, narrowly won his fourth and final term by defeating by a margin of 12,227 votes the Democrat Bob Krueger, later an interim appointed senator. Clements defeated Hill by 16,909 votes and hence outpolled Tower statewide 4,682. The results seemed to indicate little ticket splitting between the gubernatorial and senatorial contests that year.
-In 1982, when Clements sought reelection, he was unseated by his political rival, [[Mark White]], then the Texas attorney general. He was weakened by a decline that year in the petroleum industry in which he had become a multi-millionaire. The 1982 race was the last in which Democrats won all statewide offices in Texas. Ernest Angelo, a former [[mayor]] of [[Midland]] who was a Texas co-chair of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s attempt in 1976 to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Gerald Ford, said that Clements' defeat in 1982 was his own greatest disappointment in politics even though Angelo himself lost a bid for the Texas State Senate in that same election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo Jr. of Midland and the 96–0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," [West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'', now known as ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 82-83.</ref> Clements, however, turned the tables on White in the 1986 gubernatorial [[general election]], when he won a second term in the office. Clements was considered an [[establishment]] Republican with strong [[conservative]] appeal. He claimed to oppose [[abortion]] except in cases of [[rape]], [[incest]], or if the life of the woman bearing the child would be threatened by carrying the pregnancy to term.
+In 1982, when Clements sought reelection, he was unseated by his political rival, [[Mark White]], then the Texas attorney general. He was weakened by a decline that year in the petroleum industry in which he had become a multi-millionaire. The 1982 race was the last in which Democrats won all statewide offices in Texas. Ernest Angelo, a former [[mayor]] of [[Midland]] who was a Texas co-chair of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s attempt in 1976 to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Gerald Ford, said that Clements' defeat in 1982 was his own greatest disappointment in politics even though Angelo himself lost a bid for the Texas State Senate in that same election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo Jr. of Midland and the 96–0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'', now known as ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 82-83.</ref> Clements, however, turned the tables on White in the 1986 gubernatorial [[general election]], when he won a second term in the office. Clements was considered an [[establishment]] Republican with strong [[conservative]] appeal. He claimed to oppose [[abortion]] except in cases of [[rape]], [[incest]], or if the life of the woman bearing the child would be threatened by carrying the pregnancy to term.
 Clements' second term was marred by a [[football]] slush fund scandal at SMU, with questionable payments "phased out" but still continued for some time because pf prior commitments to the athletes. The scandal caused the NCAA to cancel football at SMU in the 1987 season, and team did not compete in 1988 as well. It was not until 2009 that SMU received a subsequent bowl invitation. The isse brough Clements at loggerheads with then SMU President L. Donald Shields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1310625.html|title=Clements apologizes for SMU role; governor fails to name others involved in football payments|author=T. James Munoz|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=March 11, 1987|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref>

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	Clements' second term was marred by a [[football]] slush fund scandal at SMU, with questionable payments "phased out" but still continued for some time because pf prior commitments to the athletes. The scandal caused the NCAA to cancel football at SMU in the 1987 season, and team did not compete in 1988 as well. It was not until 2009 that SMU received a subsequent bowl invitation. The isse brough Clements at loggerheads with then SMU President L. Donald Shields.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1310625.html\|title=Clements apologizes for SMU role; governor fails to name others involved in football payments\|author=T. James Munoz\|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''\|date=March 11, 1987\|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref>		Clements' second term was marred by a [[football]] slush fund scandal at SMU, with questionable payments "phased out" but still continued for some time because pf prior commitments to the athletes. The scandal caused the NCAA to cancel football at SMU in the 1987 season, and team did not compete in 1988 as well. It was not until 2009 that SMU received a subsequent bowl invitation. The isse brough Clements at loggerheads with then SMU President L. Donald Shields.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1310625.html\|title=Clements apologizes for SMU role; governor fails to name others involved in football payments\|author=T. James Munoz\|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''\|date=March 11, 1987\|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref>
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		+	In 2010, Clements' son from his first marriage, B. Gill Clements (1941-2010), was murdered at th3e age of sixty-nine at his ranch in Athens in Henderson County.

	The 15-story-high William P. Clements State Office Building at 300 West 15th Street in the capital city of [[Austin]] is named in his honor.		The 15-story-high William P. Clements State Office Building at 300 West 15th Street in the capital city of [[Austin]] is named in his honor.

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 He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom whom Clements sometimes quarreled. For thirty-nine days, he was the acting Secretary of Defense. Clements was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.
-Clements won his first term as governor over the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee, John Luke Hill, who had unseated Governor [[Dolph Briscoe]] in the primary election. In the 1978 general election, [[John Tower]], the first Republican [[U.S. Senator]] to have been popularly elected from Texas, narrowly won his fourth and final victory by defeating the Democrat Bob Krueger, later an interim appointed senator.
+Clements won his first term as governor in 1978 over the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee, John Luke Hill, who had unseated Governor [[Dolph Briscoe]] in the primary election. In the same [[general election]], [[John Tower]], the first Republican [[U.S. Senator]] to have been popularly elected from Texas, narrowly won his fourth and final term by defeating by a margin of 12,227 votes the Democrat Bob Krueger, later an interim appointed senator. Clements defeated Hill by 16,909 votes and hence outpolled Tower statewide 4,682. The results seemed to indicate little ticket splitting between the gubernatorial and senatorial contests that year.
 In 1982, when Clements sought reelection, he was unseated by his political rival, [[Mark White]], then the Texas attorney general. He was weakened by a decline that year in the petroleum industry in which he had become a multi-millionaire. The 1982 race was the last in which Democrats won all statewide offices in Texas. Ernest Angelo, a former [[mayor]] of [[Midland]] who was a Texas co-chair of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s attempt in 1976 to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Gerald Ford, said that Clements' defeat in 1982 was his own greatest disappointment in politics even though Angelo himself lost a bid for the Texas State Senate in that same election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo Jr. of Midland and the 96–0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," [West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'', now known as ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 82-83.</ref> Clements, however, turned the tables on White in the 1986 gubernatorial [[general election]], when he won a second term in the office. Clements was considered an [[establishment]] Republican with strong [[conservative]] appeal. He claimed to oppose [[abortion]] except in cases of [[rape]], [[incest]], or if the life of the woman bearing the child would be threatened by carrying the pregnancy to term.

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 He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom whom Clements sometimes quarreled. For thirty-nine days, he was the acting Secretary of Defense. Clements was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.
-In his first attempt at reelection in 1982, the last year that Texas [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] won all statewide offices, Clements was unseated by his political rival, [[Mark White]], then the Texas attorney general. Clements was hurt by a decline that year in the petroleum industry in which he had become a multi-millionaire. Ernest Angelo, a former [[mayor]] of [[Midland]] who was a Texas co-chair of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s attempt in 1976 to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Gerald Ford, said that Clements' defeat in 1982 was his own greatest disappointment in politics even though Angelo himself lost a bid for the Texas State Senate in that same election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo Jr. of Midland and the 96–0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," [West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'', now known as ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 82-83.</ref> Clements, however, turned the tables on White in the 1986 gubernatorial [[general election]], when he won a second term in the office. Clements was considered an [[establishment]] Republican with strong [[conservative]] appeal. He claimed to oppose [[abortion]] except in cases of [[rape]], [[incest]], or if the life of the woman bearing the child would be threatened by carrying the pregnancy to term.
+Clements won his first term as governor over the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee, John Luke Hill, who had unseated Governor [[Dolph Briscoe]] in the primary election. In the 1978 general election, [[John Tower]], the first Republican [[U.S. Senator]] to have been popularly elected from Texas, narrowly won his fourth and final victory by defeating the Democrat Bob Krueger, later an interim appointed senator.
 Clements' second term was marred by a [[football]] slush fund scandal at SMU, with questionable payments "phased out" but still continued for some time because pf prior commitments to the athletes. The scandal caused the NCAA to cancel football at SMU in the 1987 season, and team did not compete in 1988 as well. It was not until 2009 that SMU received a subsequent bowl invitation. The isse brough Clements at loggerheads with then SMU President L. Donald Shields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1310625.html|title=Clements apologizes for SMU role; governor fails to name others involved in football payments|author=T. James Munoz|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=March 11, 1987|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref>

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+| image=Bill Clements of TX.jpg
 | office=42nd and 44th [[Governor]] of [[Texas]]
 | term_start=January 20, 1987

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 | predecessor2=[[Dolph Briscoe]]
 | successor2=Mark White
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+| office3=United States Deputy<br> Secretary of Defense
 | term_start3=January 30, 1973
 | term_end3=January 20, 1977
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 '''William Perry Clements, Jr.''', known as '''Bill Clements''' (April 13, 1917 &ndash; May 29, 2011), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, university executive, and [[politician]] from his native [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. After making his fortune in [[petroleum]] through the SEDCO Company, Clements served as the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[governor]] of his state in 105 years, with two nonconsecutive terms from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991.
-He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom whom Clements sometimes quarreled. He was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.
+He was earlier the Deputy Secretary of Defense for the [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]] administrations, with partial service under [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]], whom whom Clements sometimes quarreled. For thirty-nine days, he was the acting Secretary of Defense. Clements was later the chairman of the board governors at [[Southern Methodist University]], which he had briefly attended as a student in his earlier years.
 In his first attempt at reelection in 1982, the last year that Texas [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] won all statewide offices, Clements was unseated by his political rival, [[Mark White]], then the Texas attorney general. Clements was hurt by a decline that year in the petroleum industry in which he had become a multi-millionaire. Ernest Angelo, a former [[mayor]] of [[Midland]] who was a Texas co-chair of [[Ronald W. Reagan]]'s attempt in 1976 to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from Gerald Ford, said that Clements' defeat in 1982 was his own greatest disappointment in politics even though Angelo himself lost a bid for the Texas State Senate in that same election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo Jr. of Midland and the 96–0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," [West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'', now known as ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 82-83.</ref> Clements, however, turned the tables on White in the 1986 gubernatorial [[general election]], when he won a second term in the office. Clements was considered an [[establishment]] Republican with strong [[conservative]] appeal. He claimed to oppose [[abortion]] except in cases of [[rape]], [[incest]], or if the life of the woman bearing the child would be threatened by carrying the pregnancy to term.