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Profile of Brad Henry
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Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Brad Henry (born June 10, 1963) is the Governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 2002, defeating former Republican Congressman Steve Largent and Independent candidate Gary Richardson. Largent and Henry each received about 43% of the vote, while Richardson (a former Republican candidate) was the second most successful third-party gubernatorial candidate in the nation in the 2002 election, receiving 14% of the vote.
Brad Henry was officially sworn in as Oklahoma's 26th governor on January 13, 2003.
A third generation Oklahoman, he was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he attended public schools and graduated from Shawnee High School. After graduating, Henry attended the University of Oklahoma as a President's Leadership Scholar and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1985. In 1988, Governor Henry was awarded his law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he served as managing editor of the Law Review.
Henry made national headlines by giving sanctuary from the redistricting warrant to Texas Democrats in that state's legislature by allowing them to travel across state lines into Oklahoma en masse to deny a quorum for voting on a redistricting plan. "Our position is that, without a warrant signed by a judge, we have no authority. Even under those circumstances, we are hesitant to get pulled into a Texas political battle. If we're going to do battle with Texas, we prefer that it be on the football field," Henry said through his spokesman.
External Link
- Official Governor of Oklahoma home page
Preceded by:
Frank Keating |
Governor of Oklahoma
2003–present |
Succeeded by:
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| Governors of Oklahoma |
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| Haskell | Cruce | Williams | Robertson | Walton | Trapp | Johnston | Holloway | W. Murray | Marland | Phillips | Kerr | Turner | J. Murray | Gary | Edmondson | Nigh | Bellmon | Bartlett | Hall | Boren | Nigh | Bellmon | Walters | Keating | Henry |
| Current governors of states and insular areas in the United States |
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AK: Frank Murkowski
AL: Bob Riley
AR: Mike Huckabee
AZ: Janet Napolitano
CA: Arnold Schwarzenegger
CO: Bill Owens
CT: M. Jodi Rell
DE: Ruth Ann Minner
FL: Jeb Bush
GA: Sonny Perdue
HI: Linda Lingle
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IA: Tom Vilsack
ID: Dirk Kempthorne
IL: Rod Blagojevich
IN: Mitch Daniels
KS: Kathleen Sebelius
KY: Ernie Fletcher
LA: Kathleen Blanco
MA: Mitt Romney
MD: Robert L. Ehrlich
ME: John Baldacci
MI: Jennifer Granholm
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MN: Tim Pawlenty
MO: Matt Blunt
MS: Haley Barbour
MT: Brian Schweitzer
NC: Mike Easley
ND: John Hoeven
NE: Dave Heineman
NH: John Lynch
NJ: Richard Codey (acting)
NM: Bill Richardson
NV: Kenny Guinn
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NY: George Pataki
OH: Bob Taft
OK: Brad Henry
OR: Ted Kulongoski
PA: Ed Rendell
RI: Donald Carcieri
SC: Mark Sanford
SD: Mike Rounds
TN: Phil Bredesen
TX: Rick Perry
UT: Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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VA: Mark R. Warner
VT: Jim Douglas
WA: Christine Gregoire
WI: Jim Doyle
WV: Joe Manchin
WY: Dave Freudenthal
AS: Togiola Tulafono
GU: Felix Perez Camacho
MP: Juan N. Babauta
PR: AnÃbal Acevedo Vilá
VI: Charles Wesley Turnbull
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