Krueger, a conservative Texas Democrat, was a politician and U.S. diplomat to two African countries.
Bob Krueger, former U.S. congressman, senator and ambassador from Texas, died on April 30, 2022. He was 86., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
He served only five months, losing a bruising special election to future Texas Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who would serve out the remainder of that term and win reelection three more times.In 1994, President Bill Clinton named Krueger as the U.S. ambassador to Burundi, an African country neighboring Rwanda, which was amid civil war at the time.
The 21st Congressional district should have been the next logical pick up for Republicans looking to make gains within the Texas Congressional delegation. At that time, it stretched from conservative northern San Antonio into its other population center, San Angelo in West Texas. Two years before, President Richard Nixon defeated Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern there by 52 points.
But he aspired for a higher office across the Capitol. He unsuccessfully ran three times for Senate, first challenging Republican U.S. Sen. John Tower in 1978. Six years later, he lost to now-U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett in the 1984 Democratic primary, in a race that Republican U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm eventually won.
But diplomacy in East Africa in 1994 was anything but a joke, and the continent would become the center of his professional portfolio. “One day his wife, Kathleen, faced down a dozen African soldiers who were intent on killing one of their household workers,” he added.is listedThe Kruegers left that post in 1996, and he went on to serve in the Clinton administration as the U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and as a special representative of the U.S. Secretary of State to the Southern African Development Community.
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