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William Warren Bradley is an American politician and former professional basketball player. After playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 10 seasons with the New York Knicks, he served as a United States senator from New Jersey from 1979 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a candidate for the party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, losing to Vice Presi…
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Born 28 July 1943 · Q504025
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I had spring semester grades where I must have been close to failing in two subjects. French and biology, I think. So then I just lived in the library.
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“America is a vicarious society. ... Thousands of people who do not know me use my participation on a Sunday afternoon as an excuse for non-action, as a fix to help them escape their own everyday problems, and society”
“I had spring semester grades where I must have been close to failing in two subjects. French and biology, I think. So then I just lived in the library.”
“s campaign has filmed and published on its Internet site a clip of Evans repeating the claim. Recollections aside, there are artifacts of Bradley”
“it was a waste because the people needed educating more than buildings they didn”
“I apologize for all the arguments about Labor & Management, Democrat & Rep., we have had the past two years. I really don”
“Someone who had a very harsh, critical parent, if it wasn”
“A soft touch is no more than practicing the right way. All shots can be scientifically analyzed.”
“whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.”
“s plans for her son. Looking back from adulthood, Bill Bradley would write wryly that he had been his mother”
“For somebody 20 years old to answer that question either way would be presumptuous.”
“I will support him in his bid to win the White House,”
“the cause for which I ran has not been defeated”
“perhaps considered a smart athlete”
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The Guardian: Petrol bombs, drugs and Bradley from S Club 7: inside the wild 00s hood movie that the police seized
The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Arsenal and Liverpool battle it out for Bradley Barcola?
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2008).
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Bradley was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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Bradley was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
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With a citation that described him in part as "an outstandingly distinguished athlete, a weighty pillar of the Senate, and still a powerful advocate of the weak"
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After failing to win any of the first 20 primaries and caucuses in the election process, Bradley withdrew his campaign and endorsed Gore; he ruled out the possibility of being Gore's running mate and did not answer quest
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Bradley was offered the chairmanship of the United States Olympic Committee, which he turned down
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Bradley was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL
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And he was a "regular draw on the Bradley money trail" during the campaign
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Announced he would not run for re-election, publicly declaring American politics "broken"
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Career landmark: United States senator (1995–1997).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1993–1995).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1991–1993).
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A controversy over a state income tax increase—on which he refused to take a position—and his proposal on merit pay for teachers, which led the NJEA to support his opponent, turned his once-obscure rival for the Senate,
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Career landmark: United States senator (1989–1991).
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Was encouraged to seek the Democratic nomination for president, but he declined to enter the race, saying that he would know when he was ready
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Career landmark: United States senator (1987–1989).
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Bradley re-introduced legislation that would return 1
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Career landmark: United States senator (1985–1987).
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The Knicks retired his number 24 jersey; he was the fourth player so honored by the Knicks, after Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, and DeBusschere
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With 65% of the vote against Montclair mayor Mary V
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And 1990, before deciding against seeking a fourth term in 1996
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Career landmark: United States senator (1983–1985).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1981–1983).
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Supporting Reagan's spending cuts but opposing his parallel tax cut package, one of only three senators to take this position
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Career landmark: United States senator (1979–1981).
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Bradley said that congressman Mo Udall, himself a former professional basketball player, had told him ten years earlier that professional sports could help prepare him for politics, depending on what he did with his non-
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Was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983, along with teammate Dave DeBusschere
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Ran for a seat in the United States Senate the following year, from his adopted home state of New Jersey
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Also became an author by publishing Life on the Run
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Bradley married Ernestine (née Misslbeck) Schlant, a German-born professor of comparative literature, in 1974.
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Studied at University of Oxford (1968).
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Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1965).
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Won Golden Plate Award (1965).
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And 1966 and the Amateur Basketball Association (A
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Attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where he was a member of Worcester College, delaying a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
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Studied at Princeton University (1965).
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Bradley received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Played for Princeton Tigers men's basketball (1962–1965).
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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)
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Born 1943-07-28.
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“The year 1940 was a year when all elements of the political spectrum were present � principle, law, graft, costly accusations, and a fickle public.”
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