Charles Wainman Burson was born on August 28,1944 and is a former legal counsel and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States under Al Gore.
13 Facts About Charles Burson
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Charles Burson assumed the position of legal counsel from Kumiki Gibson in February 1997 after serving almost a decade as Tennessee Attorney General.
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In 1999 Charles Burson became Gore's Chief of Staff, replacing Ron Klain who resigned in August of that year.
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Charles Burson grew up in Shelby County, Tennessee, where he graduated from Central High School in Memphis in 1962.
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Charles Burson was a friend of Gore for over three decades at the time of his appointment as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States.
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Charles Burson first became friends with the future Vice President in 1968 during the time Gore was studying Tennessee history at Memphis State University.
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Charles Burson's parents were active in Tennessee Democratic politics, and his mother had held a position in Albert Gore Sr.
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Charles Burson was elected a delegate to the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1977, and in 1978 he lost a race for Shelby County Commissioner to Republican Ed Williams.
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Charles Burson was a member of the Tennessee Trade Commission, and of the Commission on the Future of the Judicial System.
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Charles Burson represented the state several times before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Charles Burson lectured at Washington University School of Law part-time beginning in 2007 conducting a seminar on the legacy of Bush v Gore.
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Charles Burson became a full-time faculty member and the law school's first senior professor of practice in 2009 and continued in that position through 2013.
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Charles Burson is married to artist Bunny Burson and has two daughters.