Bob Krueger
Bob Krueger | |
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Mary Scott Nabers | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 21st district | |
In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1979 | |
Preceded by | O. C. Fisher |
Succeeded by | Tom Loeffler |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Charles Krueger September 19, 1935 New Braunfels, Texas, U.S. |
Died | April 30, 2022 New Braunfels, Texas, U.S. | (aged 86)
Resting place | Texas State Cemetery Austin, Texas |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Kathleen Tobin |
Children | 3 |
Education | Southern Methodist University (BA) Duke University (MA) Merton College, Oxford (MLitt, DPhil) |
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Robert Charles Krueger (September 19, 1935 – April 30, 2022) was an American diplomat, politician, and
Early life and education
Krueger was born in
Career
Politics
Krueger was elected to the 94th and 95th United States Congresses, serving from January 3, 1975, to January 3, 1979. Krueger was initially elected to the
In 1984, he ran again for the U.S. Senate. Tower decided to retire but Krueger lost in the Democratic primary, caught in the middle between the more liberal State Senator Lloyd Doggett and the more conservative U.S. Representative Kent Hance. In 2010, Krueger's campaign was named by the Houston Chronicle as the ninth-worst in Texas' modern political history, saying: "Caught in the middle, Krueger seemed like a bland centrist facing a fiery liberal and a folksy conservative. He ended up finishing third, out of the runoff and out of luck." From 1985 to 1989, he also wrote a regular column on a broad range of public affairs issues, which was carried in newspapers in San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, and Corpus Christi, Texas.[citation needed]
In 1990, Krueger returned to elective office in Texas, serving on the
He was appointed by Governor
Diplomacy
On October 23, 1979, Krueger was appointed by President Carter as Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Mexican Affairs at the
President Bill Clinton named Krueger as Ambassador to Burundi, which had been beset with violence in recent years and whose ethnic make-up was the same as that of adjoining Rwanda, whose Hutu and Tutsi groups had started a bloody civil war only months before Krueger began his service in May 1994. His family was initially not allowed to join him in Burundi due to the threat of violence. He served in Burundi until 1995, when his convoy was ambushed in Cibitoke province. He was traveling on a bare highway in Cibitoke, when gunmen with AK-47s attacked the motorcade, before being diverted by Diplomatic Security Service agents Chris Reilly and Larry Salmon.[8]
In 1996, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and concurrently Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Southern African Development Community. He held those posts until 2000, when he became a visiting fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and began to write a memoir of his time in central Africa. It was published as From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide by the University of Texas Press in September 2007.[9]
Later work
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Krueger served in several academic lectureship positions at the University of North Texas (then known as North Texas State University), the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas State University, and Texas Tech University, following his service in federal government. He delivered the Inaugural Distinguished Lecture of the Rutgers Council on Public and International Affairs on December 9, 2014.[10]
Personal life
Krueger was married to the former Kathleen Tobin of Bandera, Texas, who co-authored the book From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi, and served two terms as a City Council Member in New Braunfels, Texas, and as Mayor Pro-tem. The Kruegers have three children. In the late 1980s, Krueger and his family were the victims of a stalker.[11][12] Their experience led to the passage of a spate of anti-stalking laws in Texas.[13]
Krueger died on April 30, 2022, at the age of 86 from
See also
References
- ISBN 9780837908328.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 515.
- ^ "Guide to the Douglas Harlan Texas & National Politics collection, 1970-1999 MS 538". lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
- ^ "Texas Tech University (TTU)".
- ^ Dunham, Richard (March 3, 2010). "Our list: The ten worst campaign in modern Texas political history - Texas on the Potomac". Blog.chron.com. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
- ^ "TEXANS REJECT KRUEGER IN LANDSLIDE FOR GOP". The Washington Post. June 6, 1993.
- ^ "KRUEGER, Robert Charles - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov.
- ^ Katz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002.
- ^ "The University of Texas Press". The University of Texas Press.
- ^ "Dr. Robert Krueger: Inaugural Distinguished Lecture of the Rutgers Council on Public and International Affairs". Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
- ^ Sommer, Constance (March 18, 1993). "Senator, Wife Know Awful Lot About Stalkers : They describe ordeal to panel considering legislation to make harassment a federal offense". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ "Krueger Stalker Explains Behavior". The Victoria Advocate. May 17, 1993. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ Fort Worth Star-Telegram (March 18, 1993). "Senator's wife recounts terror, helplessness as victim". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
- ^ Former US Senator Bob Krueger passes away in New Braunfels
- ^ "Robert Charles Krueger". Texas State Cemetery. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
Further reading
- Krueger, Robert (1975). Nemser, Ruby (ed.). The poems of Sir John Davies. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-812716-1.
- Krueger, Robert; Kruger, Kathleen Tobin; Tutu, Desmond (2007). From bloodshed to hope in Burundi : our embassy years during genocide (1st ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71486-1.