Bob Graham

Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American politician and author. 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 Owners Manual.

Bob Graham (ice hockey)

Robert "Bob" Graham (born October 7, 1947) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player and coach. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 1st round (3rd overall) of the 1964 NHL Entry Draft, but never played in the National Hockey League. Graham was born in Montreal, Quebec, but grew up in Toronto, Ontario.

Born in 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Graham began his professional career in 1968 with the Syracuse Blazers of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL). He played the 1968-69 season and part of the 1969-70 season in the EHL before moving on to the OHA Senior A Hockey League where he played until the 1973-74 season. He then continued his career in Europe where he both played and coached.

In the early 2000s, Graham served as an assistant coach at the University of Waterloo with the Waterloo Warriors (OUAA).

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Bob Graham (New South Wales politician)

Robert Leslie (Bob) Graham (born 19 May 1943) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1991, representing the electorate of The Entrance. He later served as mayor of the Wyong Shire from 2005 to 2007, 2008 to 2010, and 2011 to 2012.

Graham was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 1988 state election, and ran for re-election at the 1991 election. He initially appeared to have won reelection over Labor challenger Grant McBride by 116 votes. However, due to the late completion of the 1991 redistribution, hundreds of voters received absentee ballots for Gosford. As a result, the Court of Disputed Returns ordered a by-election for 1992, which was won by McBride.

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Bob Graham (disambiguation)

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Bob Graham (author/illustrator)

Bob Graham (born 20 October 1942) is an Australian author and illustrator of picture books, primarily for very young children.

Graham won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for the picture book Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child (Walker Books), which he both wrote and illustrated. (He donated the £5000 cash prize to refugees.) The story features a young girl who finds a tiny fairy family "in cement and weeds", contrary to her father's teaching. He also won a 2000 Smarties Prize, ages category 0–5 years, for Max and the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Picture Book, for "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate.

For his contribution as a children's illustrator, Graham was Australia nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.

Biography

Bob Graham was born in New York in 1942, but then moved to Sydney at the age of ten. He grew up in Sydney with his family. He loved drawing and was greatly influenced by comics such as The Phantom and Mandrake.

Bob Graham (Tasmanian politician)

Robert James "Bob" Graham (born 13 May 1942) is a former Australian politician.

He was born in Burnie, Tasmania. He was first elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1980 as a Labor member for Denison, in a recount following Neil Batt's resignation. Defeated in 1982, he returned to the Assembly in 1984 in the recount resulting from John Devine's resignation. He was defeated again in 1986.

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