Strake was the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 1983 to 1988 . He was an alternate delegate to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston , when President George Herbert Walker Bush was nominated for a second term , for which he was defeated by the Democrat Bill Clinton . Strake had also been a delegate to the Reagan-Bush conventions in 1984 and 1988 in Dallas and New Orleans , respectively . Strake is listed in the 1981 , 1982 , 1983 , and 1993 Editions of '' Who 's Who in American Politics '' . In 1989 , he was appointed by Clements in the latter 's second nonconsecutive term as governor to serve as a member of the Task Force on Public Education . He currently serves on the boards of the Bullock Texas State Museum and the Texas Public Policy Foundation , both in Austin
1992 Republican National Convention
1992 Republican National Convention
George Strake Jr.