Bob Price (Texas politician)
Robert Dale "Bob" Price was a Republican politician from Pampa, Texas who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975, and in the Texas Senate from 1978 to 1981.
Born in Reading, Lyon County, Kansas; educated in the Reading public schools; B.S., Oklahoma State University, 1951; United States Air Force, 1951–1955; flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Korean conflict; awarded Air Medal; returned to Texas after honorable discharge in 1955; owned and operated a ranch in Texas; delegate, Texas State Republican conventions, 1964, 1966, and 1968; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses ; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; member, Texas Senate, 1978–1980; unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred First Congress in 1988, to the One Hundred Second Congress in 1990 and to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; died on August 24, 2004, in Pampa, Texas; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Midland, Texas.
