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====Alumni in government==== At least 15 graduates have served in the [[US Senate]] or [[US House of Representatives]], including [[Lloyd Bentsen]], who served in both Houses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000401|title=Bentsen bio|publisher=[[US Congress]]|access-date=July 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731195713/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000401|archive-date=July 31, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> Presidential cabinet members include former [[US Secretaries of State]] [[Rex Tillerson]], and [[James Baker]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bakerbotts.com/lawyers/detail.aspx?id=a1789334-3f27-48d5-b844-211455e4beff|title=Baker bio|publisher=Baker Botts LLP|access-date=July 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528213810/http://www.bakerbotts.com/lawyers/detail.aspx?id=a1789334-3f27-48d5-b844-211455e4beff|archive-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref> former US Secretary of Education [[William J. Bennett]], and former US Secretary of Commerce [[Donald Evans]]. Former [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Laura Bush]] and daughter [[Jenna Bush Hager|Jenna]] both graduated from Texas,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/firstlady/flbio.html|title=L. Bush bio|publisher=[[The White House]]|access-date=July 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214000101/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/firstlady/flbio.html|archive-date=February 14, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as former First Lady [[Lady Bird Johnson]] and her eldest daughter [[Lynda Bird Johnson Robb|Lynda]]. In foreign governments, the university has been represented by [[Fernando Belaúnde Terry]] (42nd President of [[Peru]]) and by [[Abdullah al-Tariki]] (co-founder of [[OPEC]]). Additionally, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, [[Salam Fayyad]], graduated from the university with a PhD in economics. [[Tom C. Clark]] served as [[United States Attorney General]] from 1945 to 1949 and as an Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] from 1949 to 1967.
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