Daniel Greenberg (born December 9, 1965)
is an American nonprofit executive and former
politician
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.
He is a former
Republican
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Political ideology
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member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives, who served from 2006 through 2011. Greenberg, who lives in
Little Rock
( The "Little Rock")
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, leader_title = Mayor
, leader_name = Frank Scott Jr.
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,
Arkansas
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, represented House District 31, which includes portions of
Pulaski and
Saline counties.
Family and education
Greenberg is the son of
Pulitzer Prize-winning
syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg of the ''
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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By virtue of one of i ...
''.
Greenberg received a
B.A.
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(honors) in philosophy from
Brown University in
Providence,
Rhode Island
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, in 1988 and an
M.A.
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in philosophy from
Bowling Green State University
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in
Bowling Green
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,
Ohio
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, in 1990.
He graduated from law school in 2007,
[ receiving his J.D. from the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. While a law student, he served as chief Articles Editor of the Law Review. He also studied law for a year at the ]University of Chicago
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.
Career
Greenberg was an analyst for the conservative Heritage Foundation
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, a writer for the libertarian Cato Institute
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, and a teacher at the high school and college level in the fields of philosophy, political science, and computer programming. He published over 100 articles on government and public policy in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals, including ''The New York Times
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'', ''National Review
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'', ''The Monist'', and the ''Ohio State Law Journal''. He has also been president of the Advance Arkansas Institute, senior counsel for the Center for Class Action Fairness, and chair of Arkansas's Alcoholic Beverage Commission. In 2017, he took a position as senior policy advisor to the Secretary
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at the U.S. Department of Labor
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in Washington, D.C.
In 1996, as policy director for then Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee
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, Greenberg was named to the ''Arkansas Business'' "40 under 40" list of leaders in business and government. He has previously taught at the Arkansas Governor's School
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and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's W.H. Bowen School of Law.
Political career
Before his election to the state legislature in June 2006, at the age of forty, Greenberg served most of two terms as a justice of the peace
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(county legislator) on Pulaski County's Quorum Court
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.
When he ran for the state legislature in 2006, he was endorsed by the incumbent in the seat, Jeremy Hutchinson, who was prohibited by term limits for running for reelection. Greenberg and Hutchinson had run against each other for the seat in 1999 as primary opponents, an election that Hutchinson won. In May and June 2006, Greenberg placed first in the district's hotly contested primary and runoff and was elected to succeed Hutchinson in the legislative seat for which the two had once competed.
Greenberg served on the Public Transportation and State Agencies committees. He was the vice-chairman of the State Agencies subcommittee on Constitutional Issues.
Greenberg made national news when he proposed the "Edifice Complex Prevention Act" barring naming public facilities after living people. "In the old days we had a tradition of waiting to judge a person's whole life before we named a building after them," said Greenberg.[
After being elected two terms as Arkansas State Representative, Greenberg ran for the District 21 seat in the ]Arkansas State Senate
The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 83,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have ...
. He lost to Jeremy Hutchinson in the 2010 Republican primary.
Personal
Greenberg and his wife, Marjorie, have three children.
References
External links
Dan-Greenberg.com
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1965 births
Living people
County justices of the peace in Arkansas
The Heritage Foundation
Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Brown University alumni
Bowling Green State University alumni
William H. Bowen School of Law alumni
William H. Bowen School of Law faculty
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American politicians
Candidates in the 2010 United States elections
21st-century American Jews