Robert Krueger, ex-Texas congressman and diplomat, dies at 86

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Robert C. Krueger, who adopted two U.S. Home phrases with a short interim appointment to the Senate earlier than launching a sometimes-hazardous diplomatic profession, has died at age 86, his household stated Sunday.

Krueger died Saturday morning in his New Braunfels house along with his spouse by his facet after affected by congestive coronary heart failure, daughter Sarah Krueger stated.

Funeral preparations have been pending.

Most of Krueger’s profession was as an educational at Duke College, the College of Texas at Austin, Rice College, Oxford College and Texas State College.

Even whereas pursuing that profession, Krueger, a Democrat, ventured into politics in 1974 along with his first election to the U.S. Home. After two Home phrases, President Jimmy Carter appointed him as a U.S. ambassador at massive and coordinator for Mexican affairs. He served in that capability till the top of the Carter administration in 1981.

Krueger returned to elective politics when he received a seat on the Texas Railroad Fee in 1990. He served from January 1991 till Texas Gov. Ann Richards tapped him to finish Lloyd Bentsen’s unexpired U.S. Senate time period in January 1993 when Bentsen left to develop into President Invoice Clinton’s Treasury secretary. Nonetheless, Krueger misplaced to Republican Kay Baily Hutchison in a June 1993 particular election.

Krueger returned to diplomacy when Clinton named him U.S. ambassador to Burundi in 1994. The japanese African nation was embroiled in civil strife on the time. Krueger needed to be airlifted when his convoy was attacked by unidentified gunmen in June 1995, killing one convoy member and injuring a number of others, and was recalled from the submit for his security.

Krueger was U.S. ambassador to Botswana in 1996-99 and a particular U.S. consultant to the 14-nation Southern African Growth Neighborhood in 1998-2000. He then returned to academia as a visiting fellow at Merton School, Oxford, and continued his tutorial pursuits till his 2017 retirement from a lectureship place at Texas Tech College.

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