About David Boren
David Lyle Boren was an American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and three terms in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. A conservative Democrat, to date, he is the last in his party to have served as U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. He was the 13th and second-longest serving president of the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2018. He was the longest serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. On September 20, 2017, Boren officially announced his retirement as president of the University of Oklahoma, effective June 30, 2018. During his first visit to the US after his release, Mandela was a dinner guest of Boren and wife Molly. He won a multi-candidate primary with 46 percent of the vote to second-place finisher Ed Edmondson's 28 percent. He also created a mandatory Diversity Training for the whole campus.
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