Former Texas justice, congressman Hightower dies AP 2:53 p.m. EDT August 3, 2013
Source: USA Today
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Jack Hightower, a Democrat who also served a decade in Congress under three different presidents, has died. He was 86.
Osler McCarthy, a spokesman for the state's high court, said Hightower died Saturday in Austin. McCarthy said Hightower had Parkinson's disease.
"Texas has lost a true champion among its public servants and the Court has lost a colleague who at his very core was what a judge should be," Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson said. "Jack Hightower had integrity, wisdom and a singular purpose: to serve the public by the rule of law."
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President Bill Clinton in 1999 appointed Hightower to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences, where he served five years.
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And he was Drew Brees's grandpa.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)Rest in peace.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)Truly a man of the people.
RIP Jack
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He will be remembered for his honesty and his humor. He was a courageous man.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Jim Hightower?
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Long live Jim Hightower
bluescribbler
(2,105 posts)alp227
(31,961 posts)no real evidence exists they're of the same Hightower family.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and almost had a heart attack.
CTyankee
(63,769 posts)Too much to take after losing Ann and Molly...
bluescribbler
(2,105 posts)Jim served as Texas Agriculture Commissioner. I once heard him say, "We don't have two parties in America. We only have one party, the money party." He and Molly Ivins were close friends.