Dan Boren

Daniel David " Dan " Boren ( born August 2, 1973 in Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma) is an American politician. Between 2005 and 2013 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dan Boren is a member of a politically well-known family. His grandfather took Lyle 1937-1946 the fourth electoral district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives; his father David was 1979-1994 U.S. Senator and a former Governor of Oklahoma. The Republican candidate for the vice presidency of the United States in the 2012 election, Paul Ryan, his brother in law.

Dan Boren attended until 1997, the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and then to 2001, the University of Oklahoma. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 2002 and 2004 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Oklahoma. In the congressional elections of 2004, he was elected with a vote share of 66 percent in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he broke on 3 January 2005 from Brad Carson.

After he was confirmed in the years 2006, 2008 and 2010, he was able to implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2013. He was a member of the Armed Services Committee, in intelligence committee and the committee, which deals with the use of natural resources. In Congress, he was regarded as rather conservative. In July 2007 he was one of only ten Democratic representatives who voted against withdrawing troops from Iraq by April 2008. In early 2009 he was against the announced by President Barack Obama closure of Guantanamo in Cuba. Boren is also a board member of the National Rifle Association. Boren was leader of the Blue Dog Coalition, an alliance of financial and socio-politically conservative set deputies of the Democratic Party in the 112th Congress. In 2012, he renounced another candidacy, as he rated his chances of re-election as the only Democrat among the U.S. congressmen in Republican-dominated Oklahoma as getting worse. After the end of his time in Congress, he has worked as president of a society for the promotion of the Chickasaw Nation. His successor in Congress was founded on January 3, 2013 Mark Wayne Mullin.

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

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