Accolades pour in for Bob Krueger — East Coast academic, Texas politician, American diplomat
Mariana Krueger speaks, with siblings Christian Krueger and Sarah Krueger Robinson at her side, about their father, the diplomat and former U.S. Sen. Bob Krueger, at his memorial service at Oakwood Church in New Braunfels on Thursday.NEW BRAUNFELS — He was an unconventional Texas politician who found something much bigger than elective office after losing his last statewide race.
If your definition of “rennaissance man” is its modern sense of “a broad person who has literary and scholarly abilities that find their way into everyday life,” that was Krueger, said Henry Cisneros, the former San Antonio mayor and U.S. housing secretary. Krueger quit his academic career at Duke to win a U.S. House seat, seemingly out of nowhere, in 1974. Colleagues voted him “most effective” of the 92 freshmen representatives elected that year.
As word of his death spread, old foes praised Krueger’s contributions. Hutchison released a statement citing his “distinguished record of public service” that included “difficult diplomatic positions, including U.S. ambassador to Burundi during a civil conflict where his life was often in danger.” There was no hint that anything could uproot him from a life in higher education — and he would return regularly, with stints at the University of Texas at Austin and at Rice, Texas State and Texas Tech. But in 1973, the Watergate scandal focused him on politics.
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