Bush, Mosbacher served in Bush's Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992.
25 Facts About Robert Mosbacher
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Robert Mosbacher was born in Mount Vernon, New York, to Gertrude and Emil Robert Mosbacher.
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Robert Mosbacher had a sister, Barbara, and a brother, Emil Mosbacher Jr.
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Robert Mosbacher had a colorful childhood, growing up around characters like George Gershwin, a friend of his father.
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Robert Mosbacher went on to win the Southern Ocean Racing Conference championship in 1958 and the Mallory Cup, in 1958.
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Robert Mosbacher later appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, on May 18,1959, with his brother Bus Robert Mosbacher, for a feature article titled Kings of the Class-Boat Sailors.
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Robert Mosbacher won the silver medal in World Championships Dragon class in 1967 in Toronto.
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Robert Mosbacher won the gold medal in World Championships Soling class in 1971 in Oyster Bay, NY on a boat named "Adlez" built by Abbott with rigging from Melges.
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Robert Mosbacher lost to Buddy Melges in the 1972 Olympic Trials in San Francisco Bay.
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Robert Mosbacher won the bronze medal in World Championships 5.5 metre class in 1985 at Newport Beach.
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Robert Mosbacher was described in Stuart H Walker's book Advanced Racing Tactics as a keenly competitive racer "unwilling to settle for second".
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Robert Mosbacher participated in a semi-final match race against Ted Turner in the Mallory Cup in 1960.
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Robert Mosbacher was the finance chairman of Gerald Ford's failed election bid in 1976.
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Robert Mosbacher lost his own race for delegate to the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, to a slate backing Ronald Reagan, Ford's rival for the party nomination.
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Robert Mosbacher, running in the then 7th congressional district, lost to State Senator Walter Mengden of Houston, 39,276 to 26,344 votes.
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Robert Mosbacher was a strong proponent of the agreement, which created the largest unified market in the world.
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Robert Mosbacher served as a director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Robert Mosbacher was a charter member and past chairman of the All American Wildcatters Association, and served on the board of directors and executive committee of the American Petroleum Institute.
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Robert Mosbacher was former director of Texas Commerce Bank and of New York Life Insurance Company.
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Robert Mosbacher was a former president of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, as well as a former chairman of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.
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In 1989, Robert Mosbacher received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Houston.
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Robert Mosbacher was trustee emeritus of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and president of the board of Odyssey Academy, a public charter school located in Galveston, Texas.
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Robert Mosbacher's eldest daughter Diane "Dee" Robert Mosbacher is a psychiatrist and lesbian activist.
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On January 24,2010, Mosbacher died of pancreatic cancer at the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center at the age of 82.
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Robert Mosbacher was buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC.