Bill Bradley. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election . Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, Missouri, a small town 45 miles south of St. Louis. He excelled at basketball from an early age.
Bradley was re-elected in 1984 with 65% of the vote against Montclair mayor Mary V. Mochary. In 1987, Bradley re-introduced legislation that would return 1.3 million acres of land in the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux tribe that had been illegally seized by President Ulysses S. Grant under the threat of starvation of the tribe in 1877.
After four years of political campaigning for Democratic candidates around New Jersey, Bradley decided in the summer of 1977 to run for the Senate himself, coinciding with his retirement from the Knicks. He felt his time had been well-spent in "paying his dues".
William Warren Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American politician and former professional basketball player. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1979–1997). He ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore .
Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently We Can All Do Better, and hosts a weekly radio show, American Voices, on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is a corporate director of Starbucks and a partner at investment bank Allen & Company in New York City.
78Â years (July 28, 1943)Bill Bradley / Age
Ernestine BradleyBill Bradley / Wife (m. 1974–2007)
1965Later, during the event, Mayor Liz Lempert called Bradley "our Princeton hero." Bradley graduated from the university in 1965, the year he led the team to the Final Four in the NCAA basketball tournament. The year before, in 1964, he won a gold medal playing for the USA basketball team in the Olympics.
The two White House rivals yesterday released their personal financial disclosure forms, and they showed that two years in the private sector have been very good to Bradley, whose net worth now stands at a minimum of $5.1 million.
Crystal City, MOBill Bradley / Place of birthCrystal City is a city in eastern Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,855 at the 2010 census. It was 4,247 at the 2000 census. Crystal City and its neighbor Festus are often collectively known as the "Twin Cities". Wikipedia
Princeton UniversityBill Bradley / College (1965)Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Wikipedia
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Upon his retirement from basketball, Frazier went into broadcasting; he is currently a color commentator for telecasts of Knicks games on the MSG Network.
Coach Butch van Breda Kolff 'The story of the 1965 Princeton Basketball team is the story of Bill Bradley and Head Coach Butch van Breda Kolff '45 leading a group of relatively inexperienced junior and sophomore players to accomplish historic feats throughout the season, to which no Princeton team has ever come close.
July 28, 1943 (age 78Â years)Bill Bradley / Date of birthBill Bradley, byname of William Warren Bradley, (born July 28, 1943, Crystal City, Mo., U.S.), collegiate and professional basketball player who later served as a U.S. senator.
He would work on the court for "three and a half hours every day after school, nine to five on Saturday, one-thirty to five on Sunday, and, in the summer, about three hours a day.
Bradley won the seat in the general election with about 56% of the vote. During the campaign, Yale football player John Spagnola was Bradley's bodyguard and driver. In the Senate, Bradley acquired a reputation for being somewhat aloof and was thought of as a "policy wonk", specializing in complex reform initiatives.
Bradley's graduation year, 1965 , was the last year that the NBA's territorial rule was in effect, which gave professional teams first rights to draft players who attended college within 50 miles of the team. The New York Knicks —one mile closer to Princeton than the Philadelphia 76ers —drafted Bradley as a territorial pick in the 1965 draft, but he did not sign a contract with the team immediately. While studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, he commuted to Italy to play professional basketball for Olimpia Milano, then called Simmenthal, during the 1965–1966 season, where the team won a European Champions Cup (predecessor to the modern EuroLeague ). Bradley was also a member of the Oxford University Basketball Club and helped lead the men's basketball team to back-to-back British University Sports Federation (B.U.S.F.) championships in 1965 and 1966 and the Amateur Basketball Association (A.B.B.A.) National Championship in 1966.
However, after breaking his foot in the summer of 1961 during a baseball game and thinking about his college decision outside of basketball, Bradley decided to enroll at Princeton due to its record in preparing students for government or United States Foreign Service work. He had been awarded a scholarship at Duke, but not at Princeton; the Ivy League does not allow its members to award athletic scholarships, and he was disqualified from receiving financial aid because of his family's wealth.
Bradley was born on July 28, 1943, in Crystal City, Missouri, the only child of Warren (June 22, 1901 – October 1, 1994), who despite leaving high school after a year had become a bank president, and Susan "Susie" Crowe (June 12, 1909 – November 30, 1995), a teacher and former high school-basketball player. Politicians and politics were standard dinner-table topics in Bradley's childhood, and he described his father as a "solid Republican" who was an elector for Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election. An active Boy Scout, he became an Eagle Scout and member of the Order of the Arrow.
Van Breda Kolff often encouraged Bradley to be more of a "one on one" player, stating that "Bill is not hungry. At least ninety percent of the time, when he gets the ball, he is looking for a pass.". Van Breda Kolff described Bradley as "not the most physical player. Others can run faster and jump higher.
Presidential candidate. See also: Bill Bradley 2000 presidential campaign. Bill Bradley for President campaign logo used in various materials in 1999 and 2000. Bradley ran in the 2000 presidential primaries, opposing incumbent Vice President Al Gore for his party's nomination.
Bradley left his studies to join the Los Angeles Police Department in 1940. He became one of 400 black officers in a police department that had 4,000 officers. He recalled "the downtown department store that refused him credit, although he was a police officer, and the restaurants that would not serve blacks.".
Bradley was attending Southwestern University Law School while a police officer and began his practice as a lawyer when he retired from the police department. Upon his leaving the office of mayor in 1993, he joined the law offices of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, specializing in international trade issues.
Yorty questioned Bradley's credibility in fighting crime and painted a picture of Bradley, his fellow Democrat, as a threat to Los Angeles because he would supposedly open up the city to feared Black Nationalists. Bradley did not use his record as a police officer in the election.
Ultimately, Bradley lost the election by about 100,000 votes, about 1.2% of the 7.5 million votes cast.
Bradley served for twenty years as mayor of Los Angeles, surpassing Fletcher Bowron with the longest tenure in that office. Bradley was offered a cabinet-level position in the administration of President Jimmy Carter, which he turned down.
Tenure. Bradley contributed to the financial success of the city by helping develop the satellite business hubs at Century City and Warner Center. Bradley was a driving force behind the construction of Los Angeles' light rail network.
In 1976, Bradley was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Whittier College. Bradley's mayoral archives are held at UCLA. Also, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has created an online resource that presents free streaming access to local newsfilm segments from Los Angeles station KTLA that document Bradley's career in the 1970s. The Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, a vast collection of over one million photographs celebrating the diverse nature of Southern California, is housed at California State University, Northridge. The international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport is named Tom Bradley International Terminal in honor of him. In 1984, he was awarded the Olympic Order in silver.
One of Texas’s most high-profile district attorneys, Williamson County D.A. John Bradley, faced a resounding defeat last night in the Republican primary—a race that became a referendum on his handling of the Michael Morton case.
Observed Grits: Bradley advocated seeking DNA destruction as part of plea agreements on the grounds that “Innocence … has proven to trump most anything.” “A better approach,” he said, “might be to get a written agreement that all the evidence can be destroyed after the conviction and sentence.
Only after a ruling from an appellate court did the testing proceed. The results not only cleared Morton’s name, but pointed to another man, Mark Alan Norwood, whose DNA was found on a blue bandana that was also spattered with the blood of Morton’s wife, Christine.
Bradley derided Michael Morton’s request to test the evidence in light of the unsolved case as “silly,” and he told Rick Casey of the Houston Chronicle that Morton was “grasping at straws” by refusing to give up his quest for DNA testing.
And Bradley, try as he may, could not escape it. This spring, Mark Landrum, the jury foreman in Morton’s 1987 trial, endorsed Bradley’s Republican primary opponent, county attorney Jana Duty.
Although Bradley tried mightily to distance himself from the Morton case—even going so far as to say that he had helped Morton gain his freedom—local voters were not so easily swayed. A widely-read local blog, the Wilco Watchdog, relentlessly dissectedBradley’s missteps in the case:
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