Warren Rudman

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Warren Bruce Rudman (born May 18, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Senator from New Hampshire. He was elected as a Republican in 1980 and re-elected in 1986, and was known as a pragmatic centrist. He chose not to run for re-election in 1992. He is now a retired partner in the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison. He currently sits on the board of directors of Raytheon, Collins & Aikman, Allied Waste Corporation, Boston Scientific and a number of funds in the Dreyfus Family of Funds.

[edit] Biography

Rudman has lived his entire life in New Hampshire, with few exceptions. He attended the Valley Forge Military Academy boarding school in Wayne, PA. He received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University, and served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received his law degree from Boston College Law School in 1960, and was appointed attorney general of New Hampshire in 1970. From 2004-2006, Rudman also led a committee that investigated accounting practices at Fannie Mae.

Prior to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Sen. Rudman had served on a now-oft-cited and praised national panel investigating the threat of interational terrorism. He, along, with fellow former Senator and elder statesman Gary Hart (D-CO), chaired the panel, and both Rudman and Hart have been lauded since Sept. 11 for their chillingly prescient conclusions.

Rudman is one of the few Jewish politicians elected in New Hampshire, let alone one of NH's few Jews. (NH is far less Jewish in terms of percentage of population than neighboring Vermont and Massachusetts, for example) He is currently a resident of Hollis, NH, an affluent suburb of Nashua, which sits along the southern tier of the state bordering northern Massachusetts. Many of Hollis' residents commute regularly to relatively high-paying jobs in Boston.

[edit] Senate Career

Rudman served on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Ethics Committee. His best known legislative effort was the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act. He, along with John H. Sununu, was a key factor in the appointment of US Supreme Court Justice David Souter.