Tom Loeffler

American politician (born 1946)

Tom Loeffler

House Republican Chief Deputy Whip
In office
January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1987
Leader| Bob Michel
Preceded by| David F. Emery
Succeeded by| Edward Rell Madigan
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 21st district
In office
January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1987
Preceded by| Bob Krueger
Succeeded by| Lamar Smith
Personal details
Born|

Thomas Gilbert Loeffler

(1946-08-01) August 1, 1946 (age 78)
Fredericksburg, Texas, U.S.
Political party| Republican
Spouse| Susan Loeffler
Children| 3
Education| University of Texas, Austin (BBA, JD)

Thomas Gilbert Loeffler (born August 1, 1946) is an American politician and Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas. He served four terms from 1979 to 1987.

## Biography

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Loeffler was born in Fredericksburg in the heart of the Texas Hill Country and attended school in Mason in Mason County. He earned a BBA and a Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas School of Law. In 1971, after just one year of private practice, he was hired by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Republican U.S. Senator John Tower made Loeffler his chief counsel in 1972. Two years later, he became a deputy for the United States Department of Energy.

### Political career

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Loeffler was a legislative assistant to U.S. President Gerald Ford, from 1975 to 1977. He successfully ran for Congress in 1978 against the Democrat Nelson Wolff, now the county judge of Bexar County. The two-term Democratic incumbent, Bob Krueger, gave up the seat to make an unsuccessful run for the Senate. Loeffler polled 57 percent of the ballots cast in the campaign against Wolff–a sharp turnabout from 1976, in which Krueger took 71 percent of the vote. However, the district had been moving away from its Democratic roots for some time.

Loeffler was a delegate to all three Republican National Conventions during the 1980s. He would never face another contest nearly as close as his first one, and was reelected three more times by over 70 percent of the vote.

### Later career

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After four terms in the House, he stepped down to run for governor of Texas but lost a hard-fought Republican primary election to the eventual winner, Bill Clements. Another losing contender was former U.S. Representative Kent Hance, who had defeated George W. Bush for Congress in 1978 in the Lubbock-based district.[citation needed] After his congressional career, Loeffler was appointed to the Office of Legislative Affairs as the coordinator for Central American policies.

In 1989, Loeffler became a University of Texas administrator. Loeffler currently works in Washington, D.C., as a lobbyist with Gray Loeffler LLC representing clients including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.[citation needed] Like Loeffler, Clements also is active in the McCain presidential campaign.

Loeffler is the father of former Minnesota Vikings long snapper Cullen Loeffler. His other son, Lance Loeffler, is currently an oil and gas executive with Halliburton in Houston, TX.[1] Lance previously worked in investment banking, holding senior level positions with both Deutsche Bank in their energy practice and UBS in their energy and healthcare practices.[2]

## References

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1. ^ "Registration". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
2. ^ "News | Texas McCombs | McCombs School of Business".

## External links

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* Appearances on C-SPAN

U.S. House of Representatives

Preceded by

Bob Krueger

|  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 21st congressional district
1979–1987  | Succeeded by

Lamar Smith

Party political offices
Preceded by

David F. Emery

|  House Republican Chief Deputy Whip
1983–1987  | Succeeded by

Edward Rell Madigan

U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by

Ted Yoho

as Former US Representative |  Order of precedence of the United States
as Former US Representative | Succeeded by

Steve Bartlett

as Former US Representative

Authority control databases: People |

* US Congress

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