Henry Cushing Grover (April 1, 1927 – November 28, 2005), usually known as Hank Grover, was an American politician from the U.S. state of

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best known for his relatively narrow defeat in

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. He was a

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Election history

Most recent election

1996

1972

References

External links

Grover's eulogy
introduced into the Congressional Record by

Ralph Hall Ralph Moody Hall (May 3, 1923 – March 7, 2019) was an American politician who served as the United States representative for from 1981 to 2015. He was first elected in 1980, and was the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Tec ...

*http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=9223 *http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mqs01 *https://web.archive.org/web/20140109062336/http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe *http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/95/12/06/lbj.html *http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/96/01/18/notebook.html

Sources

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