Brian Bushweller

Brian J. Bushweller is a Delaware State Senator for the 17th District.

Raised in New York, Bushweller received an A.A. in Liberal Arts from Ulster County Community College, a B.A. in Music from Oklahoma City University, an A.M. in Education from Stanford University in 1970, and an M.A. in Management and Supervision from Central Michigan University.^[1][2]

Originally a junior high school music teacher at a public school and an elementary school teacher at a Christian school, Bushweller became a labor union official in Florida and then New York. He moved to Dover, Delaware when he was given a job with the Delaware State Education Association union.^[1][2]

Bushweller left the union in 1993 when Governor Tom Carper hired him as his Legislative Liaison. Five years later, Carper appointed him Secretary of the Department of Public Safety. When Carper was elected to the United States Senate in 2000, Bushweller became his State Director until leaving the position in 2007 to launch his campaign for the Delaware Senate.^[1][2]

Bushweller was elected as a Democrat to the 17th District seat in the Delaware Senate in 2008, defeating his Republican opponent, former Dover Mayor James Hutchison.^[3] Bushweller is a member of the Adult & Juvenile Corrections, Finance, Highways & Transportation, Insurance, and Public Safety committees.^[1]

Bushweller married Rocky Bushweller in 1966, with whom he has five adult children and ten grandchildren.^[1][2]

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