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Gramm lives in Helotes, outside San Antonio, Texas. He is married to Dr. Wendy Lee Gramm, a native of Hawaii, who is associated with George Mason University's Mercatus Center in Virginia. They are the parents of two sons: Marshall Gramm, a professor of economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and Jeff Gramm, who has played in the indie pop band Aden. In 1999, after a bonfire stack collapse at Texas A&M University leading to 12 deaths, then Senator Phil Gramm offered the F-16 flyover reserved for his future funeral as a US senator to be given instead to the Texas A&M Community. The offer was accepted and a memorial flyover for the 12 killed was flown at a Texas A&M Football Game on November 26, 1999.

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