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Tower's impact on Texas politics continues through the success of at least 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 conservative [[Ken Paxton]] in 2014 for the office of Texas attorney general, and [[Joe Straus]] of San Antonio, the Texas House from 2009 to 2019 who held his position through an alliance with the chamber's fifty-five Democratic members. Straus was once a youthful chauffeur for Senator Tower.

Tower's impact on Texas politics continues through the success of at least 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 conservative [[Ken Paxton]] in 2014 for the office of Texas attorney general, and [[Joe Straus]] of San Antonio, the Texas House from 2009 to 2019 who held his position through an alliance with the chamber's fifty-five Democratic members. Straus was once a youthful chauffeur for Senator Tower.

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