Sam Nunn

Sam Nunn (2007)

Samuel Augustus "Sam" Nunn, Jr. (* 8. September 1938 in Macon , Georgia ) is an American businessman and politician of the Democrats . He represented the state of Georgia in the United States Senate from 1972 to 1997 .

Life and work

Nunn attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta from 1956 to 1959 and graduated from Emory University in 1961 . After joining the Georgia Bar in 1962, he began practicing law in Perry .

He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies .

With his wife, Colleen Ann O'Brien, Nunn has two children, Michelle and Brian.

politics

Nunn was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972 . He was elected to the US Senate on November 7, 1972, taking the seat of the late Senator Richard B. Russell . After several re-elections, he did not run for office in 1996 and left the Senate on January 3, 1997.

Because of his cross-party valued expertise in foreign policy, he was discussed several times (most recently in 2008) as a Democratic candidate for the US Vice Presidency. With the Republican Senator Richard Lugar , Nunn launched an initiative to reduce weapons of mass destruction , the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program , from 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union .

Awards

In 1997, Nunn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He received the Chairman's Medal of the Heinz Awards in 2004 . In 2005 the American Philosophical Society awarded him their Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service . The then Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle awarded him the Great Cross of Merit with a Star on February 1, 2013 for his commitment to disarmament .

Web links

• Sam Nunn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Sam Nunn in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Board of Trustees ( English ) Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
2. ↑ Jonas Oransky: 'The Time Has Come' for Sam Nunn as VP. The Perennial Could-be Is Perfect for Obama. In: Newser.com , June 13, 2008.
3. ^ Veep in the Middle. ( Memento from December 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Daily Beast , July 3, 2008.
4. ^ Nunn Awarded Order of Merit from German Government. ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release. In: The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs (website), February 1, 2013.