Boren, David Lyle & Molly W. (Shi)

Rhodes Scholar David Boren, currently President of the University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.

David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941,in Washington, D.C.) is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently president of the University of Oklahoma. He was the longest serving Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Boren is part of the politically-prominent Boren family. His father, Lyle Boren, served in the U.S. House of Representatives (OK-04) from 1937 to 1947. His son, Dan Boren, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives (OK-02) since 2005.

Shortly after graduating from law school, Boren married Janna Lou Little, the daughter of Oklahoma politician Reuel Little of Madill, who ran for governor as the candidate for the American Party in 1970. The couple had two children, Dan and Carrie, before the marriage ended in divorce in 1975.

At age thirty-three, Boren was the nation's youngest governor when inaugurated on January 12, 1975. His inaugural ball at Oklahoma City's Myriad Convention Center offered music for every kind of taste from big band to rock and roll. The new governor's cousin, singer and songwriter Hoyt Axton, performed.

He successfully ran for the U.S. Senate. Reelected twice, he served a total of three terms. David Boren resigned from the Senate in 1994 to become president of the University of Oklahoma. Molly Boren became the first woman in Oklahoma history to serve as a trial judge, First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, and First Lady of the University of Oklahoma. Boren became the first Oklahoman to serve as a state legislator, governor, U.S. Senator, and president of the University of Oklahoma.

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