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Warren Bruce Rudman (May 18, 1930November 19, 2012) was an American attorney and
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who served as United States
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from
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between 1980 and 1993. He was known as a moderate
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, to such an extent that
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approached him in 1994 about replacing departing
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in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined. After two terms in office, Rudman chose not to run for re-election in 1992. At the time of his death, he was a co-chair of
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; a retired partner in the international law firm
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; and an advisory board member of
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. He previously sat on the board of directors of
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,
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,
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,
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and a number of funds in the Dreyfus Family of Funds.


Early life and education

Rudman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Theresa (née Levenson) and Edward G. Rudman. His family were Jewish immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Russia. Rudman lived his entire life in New Hampshire, with few exceptions. He attended the
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boarding school in
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. He received his undergraduate degree from
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, and served in the
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during the
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. He received his J.D. degree from
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in 1960, and was appointed
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in 1970; serving in that capacity until 1976.


Career

From 2004 to 2006, Rudman led a team of attorneys that investigated accounting practices at
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. Prior to the
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, Rudman had served on a now oft-cited national panel investigating the threat of international terrorism. He, along with fellow former Senator
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(D-CO), chaired the panel, and both Rudman and Hart have been lauded since September 11 for their prescient conclusions. Rudman was an Advisory Board member and Co-Chair of the
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, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. Rudman was one of the few
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politicians elected in New Hampshire. He spent his final years as a resident of
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, a suburb of both
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and
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. He was the author of a memoir called ''Combat''.


Senate career

Rudman defeated incumbent John Durkin in the 1980 election, riding the wave of
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's
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. Durkin resigned and the Governor appointed Rudman to fill the vacancy in late December 1980. Rudman served on the
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and the Ethics Committee. His best-known legislative effort was the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act. A moderate Republican, Rudman was conservative on matters of fiscal and defense policy—favoring
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s, reduced domestic spending, and higher military spending, but liberal on social issues—supporting a woman's right to choose to have an abortion,
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, and opposing a constitutional amendment mandating voluntary school prayer. Rudman, along with
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, was a key player in the appointment of Rudman's personal friend,
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Justice
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, to both the
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and the Supreme Court. ''The Wall Street Journal'' later editorialized about the appointment, saying: "Rudman, the man who helped put liberal jurist David Souter on the high court" and who in his "Yankee Republican liberalism" took "pride in recounting how he sold Mr. Souter to gullible White House chief of staff John Sununu as a confirmable conservative. Then they both sold the judge to President Bush, who wanted above all else to avoid a confirmation battle." Rudman wrote in his memoir that he had "suspected all along" that Souter would not "overturn activist liberal precedents." Sununu later said of Rudman, "In spite of it all, he's a good friend. But I've always known that he was more liberal than he liked the world to think he was."


Post-Senate years

After leaving the Senate, Rudman continued to practice law and be an active member in national politics. Senator
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's asked Rudman to serve as his campaign chair during McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. On January 8, 2001, he was presented with the
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by President Clinton. He was twice considered as a possible vice presidential candidate on the ticket of two parties other than the GOP. In 1996,
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offered Rudman the slot to be his vice presidential running mate on the Reform Party ticket, but Rudman refused (as did former Democratic Senator
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of
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). Perot eventually selected
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. In 2004, Rudman was mentioned as possible running mate for Democratic nominee
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. Kerry eventually selected
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. In 1999, a leaked report by the U.S.
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(NDIC) stated that
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, a
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criminal,
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and influential businessman, and his two sons are so involved in
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and
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that they "pose a significant criminal threat to the United States." After the report was disclosed, the Hank family mobilized to rebut the allegations, hiring high-profile lawyers including Rudman. Rudman was an attorney with the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and represented Hank Gonzalez's oldest son,
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. Rudman lobbied the government to disavow the report and in March 2000 Attorney General
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wrote a letter that said the report "was beyond the substantive expertise and area of responsibility of the NDIC.″ At Rudman's request, a copy of Reno's letter was sent to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan because of the Hank family's banking interests in the United States. Carlos Hank Rhon was later fined $40 million to settle charges that he violated banking laws when he bought Laredo National Bancshares in Texas and failed to disclose the sale of a $20 million share in Laredo National to his father. He was a co-chair, along with former Secretary of State
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and former National Security Advisor
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, of
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, a global business consulting and strategy firm based in Washington, D.C. He died of cancer on November 19, 2012. His death came only a month after his predecessor John Durkin had died. After his death, President Obama praised Rudman as an early advocate for fiscal responsibility.


See also

* U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) *
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References


External links

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