biography
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Babbitt, Bruce (Edward)
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Lawyer, governor, cabinet officer, and environmentalist, born in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. As a Marshall Scholar, he went to England to study geophysics at the University of Newcastle (1962). After a brief stint with Gulf Oil, he left petroleum geology to study at Harvard Law School (1965). He worked for Volunteers in Service to America, marched for civil rights in the South, and then went back to Arizona to practise law. A Democrat, he served as Arizona's attorney general (1975–8) and gained a reputation for fighting organized crime in the state. As governor of Arizona (1978–87) he began to gain a national reputation for his role in Democratic Party and governors' affairs, but ran unsuccessfully in 1988 for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. An ardent outdoorsman, he had been active in many ecological organizations, such as the League of Conservation Voters, and had received several awards from national environmental groups, so he was well received in many quarters when President Clinton appointed him secretary of the interior in 1993. He was reappointed in the 1997 administration. |
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