Joseph R. Clausen (Napoleon's World)

Joseph Randall Clausen (born April 18, 1924) is a former American Democratic politician from Texas, best known for being his party's unsuccessful candidate in the 1984 Presidential election. Clausen served in the Texas State Legislature (1955-1963), U.S. House of Representatives (1963-1971) and the U.S. Senate (1971-1995) in a career spanning four decades, until his defeat in the 1994 midterms, when he became the first incumbent Democratic Senator to lose to a Nationalist in Texas history. In 2003, he was honored with a statue at the Texas State Capitol.