Sam Nunn

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

He attended from 1956 to 1959, the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and graduated in 1961 from Emory University. After his admission to the Bar of Georgia in 1962 he began to practice as a lawyer in Perry.

Nunn was from 1968 to 1972 deputy in the House of Representatives from Georgia. On 7 November 1972 he was elected to the U.S. Senate and took over the seat of the late Senator Richard B. Russell. After several successful elections, he did not run in 1996 and resigned on 3 January 1997 from the Congress of the United States.

Because of its cross-party estimated expertise in foreign policy, he was repeatedly ( most recently in 2008 ) as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. vice presidency in an interview. With Republican Senator Richard Lugar Nunn brought from 1991 after the demise of the Soviet Union initiative to reduce weapons of mass destruction on the way ( Nunn - Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program). Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle conferred him on February 1, 2013 for its commitment to disarmament, the Great Cross of Merit with Star.

Nunn is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees ( Board ) of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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