TEMPLE, Texas (AP) _ Jamie Hager Clements, the youngest legislator ever elected to the Texas House of Representatives and the man who helped build the modern Scott and White Hospital, has died. He was 78.
The Temple Daily Telegram reports Clements died Thursday.
He served three terms as a state legislator, two terms as the mayor of Temple, Texas and four decades as attorney and general counsel for Scott and White.
During his time, the medical facility grew into the largest multidisciplinary health care system in the state and he became a nationally recognized authority on health care law.
Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in November 1951, Clements had to wait until he turned 21 a month later to be sworn into office the following year.
Officials at Scanio-Harper Funeral Home said burial would will be Monday at Texas State Cemetery in Austin followed by a memorial service at Grace Presbyterian Church in Temple.