births
April 13, 1917
Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (died 2011)
Bill Clements
William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark Wells White, a Democrat who defeated Clements in the 1982 election only to lose his campaign for reelection in 1986.
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
The deputy secretary of defense is a statutory office and the second-highest-ranking official in the Department of Defense of the United States of America.