Paul Eggers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Texas lawyer and politician
Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1919
Place of Birth: Seymour, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 21-Jun-2013
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Paul Eggers
- Paul Walter Eggers (April 20, 1919 – June 21, 2013) was an Indiana native who was the Republican nominee for governor of Texas in both 1968 and 1970, when the state still had two-year gubernatorial terms.
- (Under a 1972 state constitutional amendment, the terms were doubled in 1974 to the current four years.) Eggers' races for governor were his only attempts at elected office.
- At the time, he was a largely unknown tax attorney in Wichita Falls in North Texas. By 1970, Eggers had relocated from Wichita Falls to Dallas.
- He was a close friend and associate of Republican U.S.
- Senator John G.
- Tower.
- Eggers' amiable personality was shown in his campaign posters, and he waged aggressive though underfunded races against the conservative Democratic nominee, Preston Smith, a theater owner from Lubbock, who was the lieutenant governor under retiring Governor John B.
- Connally, Jr.
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