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This channel has been established for visually impaired people. For the visually impaired people, voice narration and a written expression are also provided for the hearing impaired. Daniel Robert Bob Graham born November 9, 1936 as an American politician and author as a member of the American Democratic Party. He was the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States Senator from that state from 1987 to 2005 Graham ran for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, but dropped out of the race on October 6, 2003 he announced his retirement from the Senate on November 3 of that year Graham now works at the newly established Bob Graham Center for Public Service at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Florida he also served as chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism through the WMD Policy Center he advocates for the recommendations in the Commission's report, World at Risk. Graham also served as co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the CIA External Advisory Board in 2011 Graham published his first novel, The Thriller the Keys to the Kingdom Graham has written three nonfiction books, Workdays, Finding Florida on the Job, Intelligence Matters, and America, the owner's manual contents one personal background to political career. 21 Workdays 22 Governor of Florida 23 U. S. Senator 24 Presidential and Vice Presidential Politics 241-2004 Presidential Race 3 After Politics 4 Business Interests 5 Honors 6 References 7 External Links Personal Background Bob Graham Signing Books at the Miami Book Fair International 2011 Graham was born in Coral Gables, Florida, the son of Hilda Elizabeth Ney Simmons, a schoolteacher, and Ernest R. Graham, a Florida state senator, mining engineer, and Derry Cattleman he is the youngest of four children his siblings are Philip Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post, William Graham of Miami Lakes, Florida, and Mary Crowe he married Adele Cowry, of Miami Shores, in 1959 they have four daughters, Gwen Graham, Sissy Graham McCullough, Suzanne Graham Gibson and Kendall Graham Elias the Graham's also have eleven. Grandchildren Bob Graham attended Miami Senior High School from 1952 to 1955, he was student body president his senior year he was international trustee of the Key Club, the Kiwana Service Organization while at Miami High Graham was the recipient of the Sigma Chi Award, the school's highest honor he received a bachelor's degree in 1959 in political science from the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Sigma New Fraternity and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the University of Florida Hall of Fame and Florida Blue Key he went on to receive an LLB from Harvard Law School in 1962 his eldest brother, Philip 1915 to 1963, was also a Harvard Law al Sue Riley, an English teacher at Carroll City, approached Bob Graham and said, The only problem with members of the Education Committee is nobody has any experience in education Bob Graham was taken aback at that assertion and asked, Well, what can I do about that? A few months later, Ms. Riley contacted Senator Graham with a proposal to teach the next semester of civics following that teaching experience, he performed 102 additional workdays during his successful 1978 gubernatorial campaign Graham has continued doing workdays throughout his tenure as governor and in the United States Senate his jobs have included service as a police officer, busboy, railroad engineer, construction worker, fisherman, garbageman, factory worker, and teacher on n S. Airways he totaled 408 workdays Governor of Florida Bob Graham was elected Governor of Florida in 1978 after a seven-way Democratic primary race in which he initially placed second to Robert L. Shevyn his supporters at the time dubbed themselves Graham crackers with this victory, he realized his father's dream, Cap Graham had run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to be Governor of Florida back in 1944 Graham was re-elected in 1982 with 65% of the vote, having defeated the Republican nominee, U. S. Representative L. A. Skip, Bifolis of Palm Beach. Graham emphasized education, and placed a focus on improvement of the public universities in the state by the end of his second term the state university system was among the first quartile of state systems in America, and its public schools and community colleges had substantially improved their academic standing in addition, Graham's administration focused on economic diversification and environmental policies during his tenure as governor, the state added 12