David Lyle Boren
| David L. Boren | |
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| President of the University of Oklahoma | |
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Assumed office December 1, 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Van Horn |
| Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board | |
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In office October 28, 2009 – February 27, 2013 Served with Chuck Hagel |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Steve Friedman |
| Succeeded by |
Shirley Jackson Jami Miscik (2014) |
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United States Senator from Oklahoma |
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In office January 3, 1979 – November 15, 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Dewey Bartlett |
| Succeeded by | Jim Inhofe |
| 21st Governor of Oklahoma | |
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In office January 13, 1975 – January 3, 1979 |
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| Lieutenant | George Nigh |
| Preceded by | David Hall |
| Succeeded by | George Nigh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
David Lyle Boren April 21, 1941 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Janna Lou Little (Deceased) Molly Shi |
| Education |
Yale University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (MPhil) University of Oklahoma (JD) |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 Oklahoma Army National Guard
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| Years of service | 1963–1974 |
| Rank |
 Captain
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David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is an American university administrator and politician from the state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently the 13th president of the University of Oklahoma. He was the longest serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Boren was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Christine (née McKown) and Lyle Hagler Boren. He graduated in 1963 from Yale University, where he majored in American history, graduated in the top one percent of his class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Yale Conservative Party, elected president of the Yale Political Union and is a member of Skull and Bones. He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from University of Oxford (1965), serving later as a member of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee.
In 1966 Boren defeated fellow Democrat William C. Wantland in a primary election and Clifford Conn, Jr. in the general election to win a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where he served four terms, 1967 to 1975. In 1968, he received a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
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