Bill Bradbury
| Bill Bradbury | |
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| 23rd Oregon Secretary of State | |
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In office November 8, 1999 – January 5, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Phil Keisling |
| Succeeded by | Kate Brown |
| 51st President of the Oregon State Senate | |
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In office 1993–1994 |
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| Preceded by | John Kitzhaber |
| Succeeded by | Gordon Smith |
| Personal details | |
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May 29, 1949 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Katy Eymann |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Salem, Oregon, USA |
Bill Bradbury (born May 29, 1949) is an American politician from the US state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he grew up in Chicago and Pennsylvania before moving to the West Coast where he worked in broadcast journalism before running for public office. A Democrat, he served as Oregon Secretary of State from 1999 to 2009, and ran for Governor of Oregon in 2010. Bradbury previously served in the Oregon Legislature from 1981 to 1995. In 2010 he was appointed to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski. He resides in Bandon, Oregon.
Bradbury was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1949, the third child of William and Lorraine Bradbury. He grew up in Chicago where his father was an associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. In September 1958, Bill’s mother and father were killed in an automobile accident in Montana. Bill and his sister Kathy were injured, but survived, and moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania to be raised by their aunt and uncle.
Bradbury graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory High School in 1967. He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where he studied communications, and moved to Oregon in 1969 where he worked as a news reporter, director, and producer in Bandon, Eugene, and Portland.
Bradbury was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1981.
Bradbury currently lives in Salem and Bandon, Oregon, with his wife Katy Eymann, whom he married in 1986. She is the daughter of Richard O. Eymann, who served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in the 1970s. Bradbury has two adult daughters, Abby and Zoë, from a previous marriage, who still reside in Bandon as organic farmers.
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