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Brad Henry
Oklahoma

Gov. Brad Henry

  • January 13, 2003 - January 10, 2011
  • Democratic
  • July 10, 1963
  • Oklahoma
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Married Kimberly Henry; three daughters

About

Brad Henry, a third generation Oklahoman, was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Henry studied at the University of Oklahoma as a President’s Leadership Scholar, earning a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1985. In 1988, he received a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, after which he returned to Shawnee to practice law with his father. He was a member of the Oklahoma State Senate for ten years.
Henry became governor in January 2003 and was reelected in November 2006. He took office in the midst of a severe budget crisis but forged a bipartisan agreement among legislative leaders that shielded education and health care from massive cuts. A political moderate, he advocated upholding the death penalty and opposed gun control but was also pro-choice, vetoing a measure in 2008 that would have required women to have an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion.

 

Source

Almanac of Famous People. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc., 2007.

The Complete Marquis Who’s Who 2010. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who’s Who.

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