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Hart received his B.A. in 1958 from Southern Nazarene University;
attended Divinity School in 1961 at Yale University; received his
J.D. in 1964 from Yale Law School; a D.Phil. from Oxford, and was
a U.S. Senator for Colorado from 1975 through 1987. A former high
school teacher by vocation, Senator Hart authored a wide range of
legislation on education topics, including performance-based student
testing, school restructuring, charter schools, and latch key child
care programs. He authored SB 813 of 1983, a landmark school reform
and financing bill.
Since 1988,
Senator Hart has been practicing law as a strategic and legal advisor
to American companies in the field of international business. He
travels extensively to Russia, Europe, the Far East and Latin America.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Senator Hart
has been a Visiting Fellow and McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford
University. He has completed his ninth book, The Minuteman, a proposal
for major military reform published in the fall of 1997. Most recently,
Senator Hart was the co-chair of a bi-partisan commission on National
Security, chartered by the Defense department to make strategic
recommendations on U.S. security policy for the 21st century.
Related Readings:
Road
Map for National Security: Imperative for Change*
On
the Record: Hart talks about America's vulnerability, Yale Daily
News, October 3, 2001
Gary
Hart lectures on Sept. 11 attacks, Yale Daily News, October
3, 2001
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