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|death_place=Austin, Texas, U.S. |office=Texas Supreme Court Justice |term_start= January 2, 1991 |term_end= September 1, 1995 |preceded=C. L. Ray, Jr. |succeeded=James A. Baker |office1=Texas Third Court of Appeals Justice |term_start1=1982 |term_end1=1991 |state2 = Texas |district2 = 22nd |term_start2=January 3, 1977 |term_end2=January 3, 1979 |preceded2=Ron Paul |succeeded2=Ron Paul | state_senate3= Texas | district3 = 7th | term_start3 = January 9, 1973 |term_end3= January 23, 1976 | preceded3 = Chet Brooks | succeeded3 = Gene Jones |office4=Member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 24-3 |term_start4=January 12, 1971 |term_end4=January 9, 1973 |preceded4=Arthur Vance |succeeded4=District rearranged |occupation=Lawyer; Professor |alma_mater=Del Mar College (A.A.) Univ. of Corpus Christi (B.S.) Sam Houston State Univ. (M.A.) University of Texas (J.D.) University of Virginia (LL.M.) |religion= Southern Baptist |party=Democratic |spouse=Lynda Hallmark |children= |allegiance= |branch=United States Army United States Navy |rank= Captain |serviceyears = 1959–1960 (Active Army) 1960–1964 (Army Reserve) 1965–1995 (Naval Reserve) |unit = U.S. Navy J.A.G. Corps |footnotes= }} Robert Alton "Bob" Gammage (March 13, 1938 – September 10, 2012) was a Texas politician, having served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, the Texas State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives. ==Life and career== Gammage was born in Houston and attended Milby High School there. He earned undergraduate degrees from Del Mar College and the University of Corpus Christi, both in Corpus Christi. He obtained a masters degree from Sam Houston State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin. He also earned an LLM from the University of Virginia School of Law. Before Gammage entered politics, he served in the United States Army and the Navy. He retired as a captain in the United States Navy Reserve. Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gammage was employed on the faculty the University of Corpus Christi, San Jacinto College, and the South Texas College of Law. In the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade), he taught at Sam Houston State University, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (formerly the University of Corpus Christi), Texas State University in San Marcos, and Roman Catholic-affiliated St. Edwards University in Austin. Gammage served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973. Gammage was a member of the so-called "Dirty 30," a bipartisan group of legislators that pushed for reform in the 1970s in the wake of the Sharpstown scandal in which then state House Speaker Gus Mutscher of Brenham in Washington County was convicted and sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to accept a bribe.〔"Former rep Bob Gammage was part of 'Dirty 30'", ''Laredo Morning Times'', September 11, 2012, p. 9A〕 Gammage was a member of the Texas State Senate from 1973 to 1976, when he was elected to the 95th Congress, having unseated then freshman Republican Ron Paul. He served only one term in Congress, having been unseated by Paul in 1978. From 1979 to 1980, Gammage was assistant state attorney general under Attorney General Mark Wells White. In 1980, he was a special consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy under U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the last Democrat to win the electoral votes of Texas. In 1982, Gammage was elected as a justice to the Texas Third Court of Appeals in Austin and served in that position until 1991. He was elected in 1990 to the Texas Supreme Court, on which he served from 1991 until 1995. In 2006, Gammage lost the Texas gubernatorial Democratic primary election to former U.S. Representative Chris Bell of Houston. Bell was then defeated by incumbent Republican Rick Perry. On May 27, 2008, Gammage delivered the funeral eulogy for his former "Dirty Thirty" colleague Joseph Hugh Allen, a former representative from Baytown. In 2008, Gammage worked in the unsuccessful campaign to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. president, having traveled to Iowa to meet with voters. According to his wife, Lynda Gammage, he spent his last years often performing pro bono legal work for the needy.〔 Gammage died at the age of seventy-four in his Llano home of an apparent heart attack on September 10, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Gammage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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