Tim Wirth served in several appointed roles in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education during the Nixon Administration and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs for the US State Department during the Clinton Administration.
15 Facts About Tim Wirth
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Tim Wirth served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
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Tim Wirth began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration.
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Tim Wirth represented Boulder and the Denver suburbs in Congress from 1975 to 1987.
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Tim Wirth had a number of difficult reelections during his 12 years in Congress, and raised large sums of money to get reelected.
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In 1986, Tim Wirth ran for the US Senate and on his party's nomination unopposed to replace Sen.
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Tim Wirth authored the far-reaching Colorado Wilderness Bill which became law in 1993, and with Senator Alan Simpson he authored major legislation focused on population stabilization.
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Tim Wirth organized the Senate Task Force on the Expansion of Major League Baseball, which became a major factor in the awarding of a new expansion franchise to Denver.
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Tim Wirth chose not to run for re-election in 1992, citing in a front page cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, frustration with the ever-increasing role of money in politics to the exclusion of focus on public policy.
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Tim Wirth led US foreign policy in the areas of refugees, population, environment, science, human rights and narcotics.
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Tim Wirth chaired the United States Delegation at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and was the lead US negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference until he resigned from the Administration in late 1997 to accept Ted Turner's invitation to be President of the newly created United Nations Foundation.
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The current holder of the chair is the man Tim Wirth replaced in the Senate, Gary Hart.
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Tim Wirth is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.
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Tim Wirth has been active in efforts to convince his alma mater, Harvard University, to divest from fossil fuels, and in March 2021 joined Harvard students, faculty, and alumni to file an official legal complaint charging that the university's fossil fuel investments were illegal under Massachusetts law.
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Tim Wirth is married to Wren Winslow Tim Wirth, the president of the Winslow Foundation.