28 Facts About Dan Glickman

Daniel Robert Glickman was born on November 24,1944 and is an American politician, lawyer, lobbyist, and nonprofit leader.

Dan Glickman served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001 in the Clinton administration.

Dan Glickman previously represented as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years.

Dan Glickman was Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America from 2004 to 2010.

Dan Glickman serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on public health, national security, and economic policy issues.

Dan Glickman serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, the board of Friends of the World Food Program and is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.

Dan Glickman serves on the Council on American Politics at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.

Dan Glickman is married to Rhoda Joyce Yura, with whom he has two children: Jonathan Glickman and Amy Glickman.

In 1969 and 1970, Dan Glickman worked as a trial attorney for the US Securities and Exchange Commission, then was a partner in a law firm, Sargent, Klenda and Dan Glickman.

Dan Glickman was elected to the US House of Representatives to represent Kansas's 4th congressional district in 1976, serving from January 3,1977 to January 3,1995, through eight successive re-elections.

In 1976, in his first congressional race, Dan Glickman was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat from, defeating eight-term Republican incumbent Garner Shriver.

Dan Glickman served as principal author of the 1990 Farm Bill and other legislation.

In 1986, Glickman was one of the House impeachment managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1986 to prosecute the case in the impeachment trial of Harry E Claiborne, judge of the United States District Court for Nevada.

In October 1993, Dan Glickman, representing a district whose second-largest industry was agriculture, voted for protectionism over free trade, restricting the importation of Canadian wheat.

Dan Glickman later blamed his surprise defeat largely on his own pro-choice positions, which he said opponents used as an "organizing tool" to rally opposition against him from voters who were otherwise politically inactive.

Dan Glickman had sought the post previously but initially lost his bid to Mississippi Congressman Mike Espy.

Dan Glickman became Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan discussion fellowship for public leaders.

Dan Glickman is a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Council on American Politics at The Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he teaches.

Dan Glickman is a senior fellow of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Dan Glickman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, America's pre-eminent foreign policy think tank, led by several former US Secretaries of State and other top former national security leaders.

Dan Glickman is Chair of the US Global Leadership Coalition, at the Center for US Global Engagement.

Dan Glickman left the Motion Picture Association of America in 2010 to serve as president of Refugees International.

Dan Glickman occupied the post for less than three months.

In 2004, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that Dan Glickman would replace Jack Valenti as its chief lobbyist.

Dan Glickman served as Chairman and CEO of the MPAA from 2004 to 2012.

When Dan Glickman was named to the MPAA post, his son Jonathan Dan Glickman was serving as President of Spyglass Entertainment Spyglass Media Group and produced such films as While You Were Sleeping and Rush Hour.

On January 22,2010, Dan Glickman announced he would step down as head of the MPAA on April 1,2010.

Dan Glickman remains a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which dispenses the Motion Picture Academy Awards, and the American Film Institute.