John Glen Browder was born on January 15,1943 and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 3rd congressional district.
18 Facts About Glen Browder
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Glen Browder attended Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, having received a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1965.
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Glen Browder went on to obtain a Master of Arts and Ph.
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Glen Browder worked from 1966 to 1968 as an investigator with the United States Civil Service Commission.
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Glen Browder served on the faculty from 1971 to 1987.
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Glen Browder's colleagues included him among their Outstanding Legislator ranks in 1985 and 1986, and he received special commendations from crime victims, social workers, and school financial aid administrators.
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Glen Browder established and chaired the statewide Alabama Elections Reform Commission to recommend and popularize changes to outdated laws governing the state's elections.
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Glen Browder was elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William F Nichols, and re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses.
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Glen Browder focused on military readiness and balancing the federal budget.
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Glen Browder successfully defended Fort McClellan, an Army training base in his district, from three efforts to close it in the early 1990s.
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Glen Browder advocated for benefits for veterans returning from Operation Desert Storm and study of a set of symptoms that would come to be known as Gulf War Syndrome.
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Glen Browder, a moderate Democrat, was a founding member of the Blue Dog Coalition in late 1994.
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Glen Browder authored the Blue Dogs' budget proposals to use savings from spending cuts to pay down the federal deficit and make tax cuts dependent on meeting deficit-reduction goals.
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Glen Browder did not seek re-election to the House of Representatives in 1996, and his seat went to the Republican Bob Riley.
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Glen Browder was instead an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate election in Alabama, 1996, losing in the Democratic primary to Alabama State Senator Roger Bedford, Jr.
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Glen Browder later returned to Jacksonville State University in Alabama as Eminent Scholar in American Democracy.
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Glen Browder retired from JSU in 2005 as Emeritus Professor of American Democracy.
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Glen Browder has published four books, The Future of American Democracy: A Former Congressman's Unconventional Analysis, University Press of America, 2002; The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History, NewSouth Books, 2009; and Stealth Reconstruction: An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History, NewSouth Books, 2010, and South Carolina's Turkish People: A History and Ethnology, University of South Carolina Press, 2018.