1. Robert Alton "Bob" Gammage was an American politician, having served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, the Texas State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives.
17 Facts About Robert Gammage
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Robert Gammage earned an associate of arts from Del Mar College in 1958 and a bachelor of science from the University of Corpus Christi in 1963, both in Corpus Christi.
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Robert Gammage obtained a master's degree from Sam Houston State University in 1965 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969.
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Robert Gammage earned an LLM from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1986.
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Robert Gammage served in the United States Army from 1959 to 1960 and the Army Reserve from 1960 to 1964.
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Robert Gammage then served in the Navy Reserve from 1965 to 2000, where he retired as a captain.
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Robert Gammage served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973.
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Robert Gammage was a member of the so-called "Dirty 30," a bipartisan group of legislators that pushed for reform in the 1970s in the wake of the Sharpstown scandal in which then state House Speaker Gus Mutscher of Brenham in Washington County was convicted and sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to accept a bribe.
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Robert Gammage was a member of the Texas State Senate from 1973 to 1976, when he was elected to the 95th Congress, having unseated freshman Republican Ron Paul.
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From 1979 to 1980, Robert Gammage was assistant state attorney general under Attorney General Mark Wells White.
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In 1982, Robert Gammage was elected as a justice to the Texas Third Court of Appeals in Austin and served in that position until 1991.
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Robert Gammage was elected in 1990 to the Texas Supreme Court, on which he served from 1991 until 1995.
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Robert Gammage embraced an expansive interpretation of the legal doctrines and constitutional provisions that protect individual rights and equality.
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In 2006, Robert Gammage lost the Texas gubernatorial Democratic primary election to former US Representative Chris Bell of Houston.
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On May 27,2008, Robert Gammage delivered the funeral eulogy for his former "Dirty Thirty" colleague Joseph Hugh Allen, a former representative from Baytown.
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In 2008, Robert Gammage worked in the unsuccessful campaign to nominate Hillary Clinton for US president, having traveled to Iowa to meet with voters.
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Robert Gammage died at the age of 74 in his Llano home of an apparent heart attack on September 10,2012.