Clymer Wright brought term limits to Houston municipal government and encouraged Ronald Reagan to run for president.
16 Facts About Clymer Wright
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Clymer Wright sold the Fort Bend Reporter as early as 1957.
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Clymer Wright later published a second conservative newspaper, the Houston Tribune.
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In 1968, Clymer Wright was a leader of Texans for Reagan, but Reagan did not enter that presidential race until he reached the national convention held in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Clymer Wright was part of the 100-member Reagan delegation to the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
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In 1982, Wright joined Howard Phillips, a former Nixon administration official who founded the Conservative Caucus in an unsuccessful effort to convince Reagan to dismiss Houston attorney James A Baker, III as presidential chief of staff.
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Clymer Wright claimed that Baker, a former Democrat and a political intimate of Bush, was undercutting conservative initiatives in the administration.
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Reagan rebuked Clymer Wright for waging a "campaign of sabotage" against Baker.
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In 1994, Clymer Wright spearheaded a second voter drive that removed a loophole that Houston officials created in the law which had enabled them to petition for a ballot position even after three terms.
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In 2008, Clymer Wright supported US Representative Ron Paul of Texas, an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Clymer Wright finished near the bottom of the multi-candidate field with only 5,111 votes statewide, less than one quarter of 1 percent of the vote.
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In 1990, Clymer Wright married the former Mary Katherine Sheftall, a Houston native.
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Mary Clymer Wright died of heart failure in a Houston hospital at the age of 67.
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Clymer Wright was found dead, apparently of natural causes, by a housekeeper.
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Clymer Wright was sitting in a chair, wearing pajamas, and the morning newspaper was nearby.
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Clymer Wright was survived by a sister, a brother, five grandchildren, and one great-grandson.