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Dan Glickman

Daniel Robert Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is a United States politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat for 18 years, and is currently a lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America.


Glickman was born in Wichita, Kansas. He attended Kansas State University and graduated from University of Michigan and got his JD from George Washington University in 1969.


In 1969 and 1970, Glickman served on the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1976, he ran for Congress as a Democrat from Kansas. In his last term, he was the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He was defeated for reelection, by Todd Tiahrt, in the election of 1994, one of numerous Democrats to lose their seats.


Following his defeat, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be the Secretary of Agriculture, where he served from 1995 to 2001. After Clinton's term ended, Glickman became the director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. In 2004, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that Glickman would replace Jack Valenti as its chief lobbyist.


External link

  • Congressional Biographical Dictionary entry (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000240)

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Dan Glickman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (456 words)
Glickman Inc. was founded by Jacob Glickman and later continued and expanded by Milton and Bill Glickman.
With the death of Milton Glickman, Dan's father, in December 1999, Dan and his siblings Norman and Sharon Glickman carried on the family business until it was sold in 2002.
In 1969 and 1970, Glickman worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, then was a partner in a law firm, Sargent, Klenda and Glickman.
Harvard Gazette: Former agriculture secretary to direct IOP (545 words)
Daniel R. Glickman, who has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government by Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Glickman served 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, first winning election in Kansas' 4th Congressional District in 1976.
Glickman currently serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; the Communities in Schools; the D.C. Central Kitchen; America's Second Harvest; the Food Research and Action Center; the RFK Memorial Foundation; and The Farm Foundation.
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