William Clements was an oil-field roughneck and entrepreneur . He was elected Texas governor in 1978 , and ousted four years later . George W. Bush remembers him as a `` great man '' and `` political pioneer '' Gov . ` Most of all , he was a friend who will be missed . '' In the early 1980s he became president of Shell Oil Company ( SOG - news - people ), which had been founded by his father -- who also happened to be one of its first investors
William Clements was an oil-field roughneck and entrepreneur . He was elected Texas governor in 1978 , and ousted four years later . George W. Bush remembers him as a `` great man '' and `` political pioneer '' Gov . In the early 1980s he became president of Shell Oil Company ( SOG - news - people ), which had been founded by his father -- who also happened to be one of its first investors