Richard D. Mahoney
| Richard Mahoney | |
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| 14th Secretary of State of Arizona | |
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In office March 6, 1991 – January 2, 1995 |
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| Governor | Fife Symington III |
| Preceded by | James Shumway |
| Succeeded by | Jane D. Hull |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 28, 1951 Glendale, Arizona, United States |
| Political party |
Democratic Independent |
| Education | Brophy College Preparatory |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Johns Hopkins University Arizona State University |
Richard D. Mahoney (born May 28, 1951) was the Secretary of State of Arizona from 1991 until 1995. He is currently the director of the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University, effective July 1, 2012. SPIA is part of NC State’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Mahoney was educated at Brophy College Preparatory, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University.
Mahoney has lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito campus). He was also professor emeritus at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Mahoney is the author of three books, two of which are about the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999). His latest book is entitled Getting Away with Murder: The Real Story Behind American Taliban John Walker Lindh and What the U.S. Government Had to Hide (2004). Mahoney has also authored numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk; and a volume of poetry in Spanish, entitled Pétalos (1995).
A member of the Democratic Party, Mahoney served as chief speechwriter in the presidential campaigns of Senators Gary Hart and Paul Simon in the 1980s. Mahoney was elected by a landslide as the 14th Secretary of State of Arizona in 1990, alongside the narrow election of Republican Governor Fife Symington. Mahoney led gubernatorial Democrat Terry Goddard by 50,000 votes, and beat Republican Treasurer Ray Rottas by over 170,000 votes, taking every county in the state.
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