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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyBRADLEY, William Warren (Bill)
(1943—)
Senate Years of Service:
1979-1997
Party:
Democrat
BRADLEY, William Warren (Bill), a Senator from New Jersey; born in Crystal City, Jefferson County, Mo., July 28, 1943; attended Crystal City public schools; graduated, Princeton University 1965; attended Oxford University, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1968; represented the United States in 1964 Olympic Games (basketball) at Tokyo, Japan; served in the United States Air Force Reserve 1967-1978; author; professional basketball player 1967-1977; businessman; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1978; reelected in 1984 and 1990 and served from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1997; was not a candidate for reelection in 1996; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000; senior advisor and vice chairman of the International Council of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. 1997-1999; essayist for CBS evening news; visiting professor, Stanford University, Notre Dame University and the University of Maryland 1997-1999; chief outside advisor, McKinsey & Company 2001-2004; managing director, Allen & Company LLC.
Bibliography
Bradley, Bill. Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; Bradley, Bill. The Journey from Here
. New York: Artisan, 2000.
Bradley, Bill. The Fair Tax
. New York: Pocket Books, 1984.
___. Life on the Run
. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976.
___. The Journey from Here
. New York: Artisan, 2000.
___. Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Jaspersohn, William. Senator. A Profile of Bill Bradley in the U.S. Senate
. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
McPhee, John A. A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley
. 1965. 2nd ed. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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