district succeeded birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title state name
7th john culberson houston , texas republican january 3 , 2001 george h.w. bush 2 march 1928 january 3 , 1971 sharon sawyer william reynolds archer , jr. .
 texas william reynolds archer , jr.
william reynolds archer , jr. .

william reynolds `` bill '' archer , jr. -lrb- born march 22 , 1928 -rrb- is a retired american lawyer and politician .
archer served two terms , from 1967 to 1971 , in the texas house of representatives -- changing from the democratic to the republican party in 1969 -- and later represented texas in the united states house of representatives as a republican for 30 years , from 1971 until 2001 , serving for his last six years as chairman of the powerful house ways and means committee .
