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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Friday appointed former Republican state legislator Tommy Williams to lead Texas A&M University while they find someone to replace former president Mark A. Welsh III, who resigned last month.

Williams, a 1978 Texas A&M alum, spent more than a decade in the Texas Legislature, worked as the system's top government relations official and advised Gov

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