Byron Dorgan

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Byron Dorgan

Byron Leslie Dorgan (born May 14, 1942 in Dickinson , North Dakota ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . He represented the state of North Dakota in the US House of Representatives from 1981 and in the US Senate from 1992 to 2011.

Life

Byron Dorgan grew up in Regent , Hettinger County . He attended high school there and received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1964 . He received his master's degree from the University of Denver in 1966 .

Dorgan was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1992 . In 1992 he won the election to succeed Kent Conrads for the United States Senate and did not take up office on January 3 of the following year, as usual, but on December 14, 1992, since Conrad after the death of the second Senator from North Dakota, Quentin N. Burdick , had taken office in an extraordinary by-election on the same date. In the Senate, Dorgan headed the Committee on Indian Affairs from 2007 . Most recently he was re-elected in the 2004 election with a 68 percent share of the vote against Republican Mike Liffrig. In January 2010, Dorgan announced that he would not run again for his mandate in the November elections ; so he left the Senate on January 3, 2011.

Dorgan published the book Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America in 2006 .

The Lutheran is married to Kimberly Olson for the second time; they have two children. Dorgan also has two children from his first marriage. Dorgan lives with his family in Bismarck .

Works by Dorgan

  • Take this Job and Ship It. How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics are Selling Out America. Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 2006, ISBN 0-312-35522-X .
  • Electric Transmission Infrastructure and Investment Needs: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Diane Publishing Co., Darby, PA 2003, ISBN 0-7567-2997-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dorgan, Byron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorgan, Byron Leslie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dickinson , North Dakota