Richard Bryan

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Richard Bryan
Attorney General of Nevada
In office
January 1, 1979 – January 3, 1983
GovernorRobert List
Preceded byRobert List
Succeeded byBrian McKay
Personal details
Born
Richard Hudson Bryan

(1937-07-16) July 16, 1937 (age 86)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Bonnie Fairchild
​
​
(m. 1962; died 2016)​
Children3
Education
University of California, Hastings (JD)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service1959–1960

Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) is a retired American

Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989 and as a United States Senator representing Nevada from 1989 until 2001. A Democrat, Bryan previously served as the state's attorney general and a member of the State Senate
.

Early life

Bryan was born in

Hastings College of the Law. In 1963 he was admitted to the Nevada Bar. He was Clark County's first public defender.[2]

Political career

Bryan as governor.

Bryan served as a member of the

Patricia Cafferata
.

U.S. Senate

By 1987, Bryan was encouraged by several prominent politicians, including

Commerce
Committees.

Bryan was an opponent of Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), stating: "As of today millions have been spent and we have yet to bag a single little green fellow. Not a single Martian has said take me to your leader, and not a single flying saucer has applied for FAA approval." He introduced an amendment to the 1994 budget that secured the cancellation of the High Resolution Microwave Survey and terminated NASA's SETI efforts less than one year after their launch.[4][5][6] Bryan ran for reelection in the Senate in 1994, easily defeating Republican challenger Hal Furman.

Bryan also focused on preventing

nuclear waste long-term storage site. Though the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository would be built during Bryan's time in the Senate, his opposition, along with delayed any actual storage from occurring. This opposition would continue after Bryan had retired before plans for storage were discontinued by President Barack Obama.[7]

Byran opted not to run for a third term in the Senate in 2000.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Famous ATOs". Alpha Tau Omega. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  2. ^ "After A Life Time Of Service, Richard Bryan Honored By Las Vegas, ACLU". Nevada Public Radio. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  3. ^ "Bryan encouraged to run against Hecht in '88". Reno Gazette-Journal. 11 August 1987. p. 17. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  4. ^ Alexander, Amir. "A History of SETI - Explore the Cosmos". The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on September 9, 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  5. ISBN 978-3-642-13195-0
    .
  6. ^ Garber, Stephen (1999). "Searching for Good Science: The Cancellation of NASA's SETI Program" (PDF). Nasa History Office. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  7. ^ a b Bryan Not to Seek Re-election Washington Post, 19/02/99, Retrieved 12/04/18

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