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.
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Jim Hightower?
