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Senate Years of Service: 1979-1994 Party: Democrat
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BOREN, David Lyle, (son of Lyle H. Boren; father of Daniel D. Boren),
a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Washington, D.C., April 21, 1941;
attended the public schools in Seminole, Okla. and Bethesda, Md.; graduated,
Yale University 1963; attended Oxford University, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes
Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1965; graduated, University of
Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Okla. 1968; admitted to the Oklahoma bar in
1968 and commenced practice in Seminole; captain in the Oklahoma National Guard
1968-1974; chairman, department of government, Oklahoma Baptist University,
Shawnee, Okla., 1970-1974; member of the Oklahoma State house of
representatives 1967-1975; Governor of Oklahoma 1975-1977; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1978; re-elected in 1985 and again in
1990 and served from January 3, 1979 until November 15, 1994, when he resigned;
chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence (One Hundredth through One Hundred
Second Congresses); Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress (One
Hundred Third Congress); president, University of Oklahoma (1994-); is a
resident of Norman, Okla.
BibliographyBoren, David.
A Letter to America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
2008.
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