Bruce Babbitt
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| 47th United States Secretary of the Interior | |
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In office January 22, 1993 – January 2, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Manuel Lujan |
| Succeeded by | Gale Norton |
| 16th Governor of Arizona | |
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In office March 4, 1978 – January 6, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Wesley Bolin |
| Succeeded by | Evan Mecham |
| 19th Attorney General of Arizona | |
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In office January 6, 1975 – March 4, 1978 |
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| Governor |
Raúl Castro Wesley Bolin |
| Preceded by | Warner Lee |
| Succeeded by | Jack LaSota |
| Personal details | |
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Bruce Edward Babbitt June 27, 1938 Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Hattie Coons |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
University of Notre Dame (BS) Newcastle University (MS) Harvard University (LLB) |
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938) is an American politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Babbitt served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 through 2001.
Babbitt was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, the son of Frances B. (Perry) and Paul James Babbitt, Sr. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, attended Newcastle University in the United Kingdom on a Marshall Scholarship, and then received his law degree at Harvard Law School.
He married Harriet Coons (known as Hattie) in 1968. She has worked as an attorney in Arizona and Washington, D.C., and served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 1993 to 1997, and as Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 1997 to 2001 during the Clinton Administration.
In the state election of November 1974, Babbitt overcame Republican incumbent Warner Lee to become Attorney General of Arizona. He succeeded Wesley Bolin as governor when Bolin died in office on March 4, 1978. Arizona does not have a lieutenant governor; the Arizona Secretary of State, if holding office by election, stands first in line in case the governor vacates his or her post. However, Rose Mofford, then secretary of state, had been appointed to her post and thus was not eligible to become governor according to the Arizona state constitution. Babbitt, as attorney general, was next in the line of succession, and thus served the balance of the term to which Raúl Héctor Castro had originally been elected in 1974. Babbitt was elected for a full four-year term later in 1978, and again in 1982. He did not run for a third term in 1986.
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