Dan Glickman

Dan Glickman

Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944 in Wichita , Kansas ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ). Between 1977 and 1995 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives ; from 1995 to 2001 he was the United States Secretary of Agriculture .

Career

Dan Glickman comes from a family who ran a successful metalworking company from 1915 to 2002, which included scrapping old cars. He attended South East High School in Wichita until 1962 and then studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . After studying law at George Washington University and being admitted to the bar in 1969, he was prosecutor for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1969 to 1970operates, a federal agency responsible for controlling securities trading in the United States. He then worked as a lawyer in a joint law firm. Between 1973 and 1976 he was also a member of the Wichita City School Board.

In the 1976 congressional elections, Glickman was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of Kansas . There he took over on January 3, 1977, the successor to the Republican Garner E. Shriver . After being re-elected eight times, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1995 . In 1986 he was one of the prosecutors in the impeachment proceedings against the federal judge for the District of the State of Nevada , Harry E. Claiborne . From 1993 to 1995 Glickman was chairman of the intelligence committee. In the 1994 election he was defeated by Republican Todd Tiahrt . His defeat was partly due to a reorganization of the constituencies in Kansas ("redistricting"), which had a negative effect on the Democrats.

After his departure from Congress on January 3, 1995, Glickman was appointed by President Bill Clinton to replace Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy in his cabinet . He held this office until the end of Clinton's reign on January 20, 2001.

Between 2002 and 2004, Glickman was Director of the Political Science Faculty at Harvard University ( Institute of Politics at Harvard University ). From 2004 to 2010 he was Jack Valenti's successor as Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America , a non-profit organization that advocates the interests of the American film industry.

Web links

• Dan Glickman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Dan Glickman in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)