Dan Boren

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Dan Boren

Daniel David "Dan" Boren (born August 2, 1973 in Shawnee , Pottawatomie County , Oklahoma ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ). Between 2005 and 2013 he represented the second congressional constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Dan Boren is a member of a family of politicians. His grandfather Lyle represented the fourth constituency of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives between 1937 and 1946; his father David was a US Senator between 1979 and 1994 and was previously the governor of Oklahoma. Republican candidate for vice presidency in the 2012 election and Speaker of the House , Paul Ryan is his brother-in-law.

Boren attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth until his bachelor's degree in 1997 and then the University of Oklahoma until 2001 , where he earned a Master of Business Administration . He then worked for Congressman Wesley Watkins , school administration and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission .

Dan Boren is married to Andrea Heupel, with whom he has two children. The family lives in Muskogee .

Political career

Between 2002 and 2004, Boren was an MP in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for its 28th constituency, after defeating Republican elector Mike Ervin with nearly 65 percent of the vote. Boren was the caucus chairman of the Democrats there - in his first legislative term, which no one had succeeded in doing before. In the 2004 election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives with 66 percent of the vote. There he replaced his fellow party member Brad Carson on January 3, 2005 , who had not run again to run - unsuccessfully - for the United States Senate . In 2006, 2008 and 2010 Borden was confirmed in the elections with 73, 70 and 57 percent of the vote, respectively.

Boren was a member of the Armed Forces , Intelligence and Natural Resources Committee . In the 2012 election , Boren decided not to run again because he considered his chances of re-election as the only Democrat among the US Congressmen in Republican-dominated Oklahoma to be increasingly poor. His term in Congress ended on January 3, 2013; he was succeeded by the Republican Markwayne Mullin .

Since leaving Congress, Boren has served as president of a society promoting the economic development of Chickasaw Indians. In January 2016, it was announced that Boren was considering running for governor of the state of Oklahoma in 2018 because the previous Republican governor Mary Fallin was no longer running due to a term limit. Boren's father spoke out publicly against the candidacy. Boren renounced the candidacy in November 2017, but kept the funding department of his previous congressional campaign in 2018, which led observers to speculate about a return to politics.

Positions

In Congress, Boren was considered to be rather conservative. In July 2007, he was one of only ten Democratic MPs who voted against a troop withdrawal from Iraq by April 2008. In early 2009 he turned against President Barack Obama's announcement that the Guantanamo camp in Cuba would be closed . Boren was a member of the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, and in the 112th Congress chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition , an alliance of financially and socially conservative Democrats. In January 2011, he supported the unsuccessful fight for the Blue Dog Heath Shuler for the chairmanship of the Democrats against incumbent Nancy Pelosi . Boren blamed Pelosi and her supporters for the outcome of the 2010 House election , in which the Democrats lost their majority. As one of two Democratic MPs alongside Mike Ross in 2011, Boren was open to an abolition of the Obamacare health care reform - called for by the Republicans .

Web links

Commons : Dan Boren  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan Saulny, Christine Haughney: For the Ryans, a Union Across Political Lines. In: The New York Times , August 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Gregory Krieg: Boren vs. Boren: Ex-Oklahoma Gov Tells Son not to Run for Same Office. In: CNN.com , January 11, 2016 (English).
  3. ^ Jack Money: Democrats draw legislative agenda for state House. In: NewsOK.com , November 7, 2002.
  4. ↑ Dan Boren. In: Crunchbase.com (English).
  5. ↑ Boren, Dan. In: OurCampaigns.com (English).
  6. ↑ Chris Casteel: Okalholam Rep. Dan Boren Prepares for Life After Congress if Congress Will Let Him Go. In: NewsOK.com , December 17, 2012 (English).
  7. ^ Dan Boren Exploring Run for Oklahoma Governor in 2018. In: KOCO.com , January 9, 2016 (English).
  8. ↑ Sean Murphy: Dan Boren decides not to run for Oklahoma governor in 2018. In: Associated Press , November 29, 2016 (English); Justin Wingerter: Dan Boren's campaign, dormant for seven years, continues to spend money. In: NewsOK.com , March 4, 2018 (English).
  9. ↑ Chris Casteel: Dan Boren Votes for Shuler Instead of Pelosi. In: NewsOK.com , January 5, 2011 (English); Jeffery A. Jenkins, Charles Haines Stewart: Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government. Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford 2013, p. 296 .
  10. ↑ Jennifer Haberkorn, Carrie Budoff Brown: Anti-reform Dems cool to repeal vote. In: Politico , January 7, 2011 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Boren, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boren, Daniel David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Shawnee , Pottawatomie County , Oklahoma