Gary Hart
| Gary Hart | |
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| United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland | |
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In office October 21, 2014 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Declan Kelly (2011) |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Vice Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council | |
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In office June 5, 2009 – February 8, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | James Schlesinger |
| Succeeded by | Bill Bratton |
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United States Senator from Colorado |
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In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Dominick |
| Succeeded by | Tim Wirth |
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Gary Warren Hartpence November 28, 1936 Ottawa, Kansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Ludwig (1958–present) |
| Children | 2 |
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Southern Nazarene University (BA) Yale University (MDiv, LLB) St Antony's College, Oxford (PhD) |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Unit | United States Naval Reserve |
Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence; November 28, 1936) is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He is perhaps best known for being the front-runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination until he dropped out over allegations of an extramarital affair with Donna Rice.
Hart served as U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1975 to 1987 and as Vice Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2008 to 2011. Since 2014 he has been the U. S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland. He is also an author, professor and commentator. He has been married to Lee (Ludwig) since 1958 and has two grown children.
Hart was born in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Nina (née Pritchard) and Carl Riley Hartpence, a farm equipment salesman. As a young man, he worked as a laborer on the railroad. He and his father changed their last name to "Hart" in 1961 because "Hart is a lot easier to remember than Hartpence." He won a scholarship to Bethany Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma, in 1954 and graduated in 1958. He met his wife, Oletha (Lee) Ludwig, there, and they married in 1958. He also graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1961 and Yale Law School in 1964.
Hart became an attorney for the United States Department of Justice from 1964 to 1965, and was admitted to the Colorado and District of Columbia bars in 1965. He was special assistant to the solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior from 1965 to 1967. He then entered private law practice in Denver, Colorado, at the firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs.
Following the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota co-chaired a commission that revised the Democratic presidential nomination structure. The new structure weakened the influence of such old-style party bosses such as Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who were once able to hand-pick national convention delegates and dictate the way they voted. The new rules made caucuses a process in which relative newcomers could participate without paying dues to established party organizations.
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