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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=William Warren "Bill" Bradley
| image=Bill Bradley of NJ.jpg
| caption=Bradley in his early years
| office=[[ United States Senator]] for [[New Jersey]]
| term_start=January 3, 1979
| term_end=January 3, 1997
| preceded=[[Clifford P. Case]]
| succeeded=[[Robert Torricelli]]
| birth_date=July 28, 1943
| birth_place=Crystal City, [[Missouri]]
| death_date=
| death_place=
| party =[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| spouse=Ernestine Misslbeck Schlant Bradley (married 1974 to 2007, divorced)<br>
'''One stepdaughter''':<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Warren and Susan "Susie" Crowe Bradley
| alma_mater=[[Princeton University]] (Bachelor of Arts)<br>Worcester College, Oxford ([[Master of Arts]]])
| occupation=[[Basketball]] player
| branch=[[United States Air Force]] Reserves
}}
'''William Warren Bradley''' , known as '''Bill Bradley''' (born July 28, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] and a former professional [[basketball]] player. He served three terms from 1979 to 1997 as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the [[United States Senate]] for his adopted state of [[New Jersey]]. He ran for the 2000 Democratic Party presidential nomination, which he lost by a wide margin to [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Al Gore, Jr.]], the [[Tennessee]]an who then lost in a disputed vote to [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[George W. Bush]], then the governor of [[Texas]].
Bradley was born and reared in Crystal City, a small town south of [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. He excelled at basketball from an early age and also did well academically. Her was offered seventy-five college scholarships, but declined them all to attend [[Princeton University]] in New Jersey. He won a gold medal at the 1964 United States men's Olympic basketball team and was the "Player of the Year'' of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1965, when Princeton finished third in the NCAA Tournament. After graduating from Princeton in 1965, he attended Oxford on a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] and hence delayed a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the [[National Basketball Association]].<ref>Bioguide Search (congress.gov), accessed April 15, 2022.</ref>
He retired from the NBA in 1977, and took advantage of his popularity from basketball to run to succeed [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clifford P. Case]] in the United States Senate. Case lost his [[primary]] for renomination in 1978 to the [[conservative]] Jeffrey Langley Bell (1943-2018), who ran again unsuccessfully for the Senate thirty-six years later in 2014 against Democrat [[Cory Booker]]. Bradley polled 1,082,960 votes (55.3 percent) to Bell's 844,200 (43.1 percent).
Thirty-one bills which Bradley introduced in the Senate became law, including appropriations for the Gateway National Recreation Area, the Coastal Heritage Trail, and Wild and Scenic River Act. He also obtained fifteen additional acres for the Morristown Historical Park in Morristown, New Jersey.<ref>William “Bill” Bradley, former Senator for New Jersey - GovTrack.us, accessed April 15, 2022.</ref>
In 1984, Bradley won a second term, carrying every county, over the Republican Mary V. Mochary despite the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidential reelection in New Jersey. In 1990, in his bid for his third and final term, Bradley narrowly defeated the liberal Republican [[Christine Todd Whitman]], who later served as [[governor]] of New Jersey.
Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently in 2012 ''We Can All Do Better,''<ref>'We Can All Do Better (billbradley.com), accessed April 15, 2022.</ref> and he hosts a weekly radio show, ''American Voices'', on Sirius Satellite Radio.<ref>American Voices on Sirius/XM Radio (billbradley.com), accessed April 15, 2022.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradley, Bill}}
[[Category:Basketball]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
| name=William Warren "Bill" Bradley
| image=Bill Bradley of NJ.jpg
| caption=Bradley in his early years
| office=[[ United States Senator]] for [[New Jersey]]
| term_start=January 3, 1979
| term_end=January 3, 1997
| preceded=[[Clifford P. Case]]
| succeeded=[[Robert Torricelli]]
| birth_date=July 28, 1943
| birth_place=Crystal City, [[Missouri]]
| death_date=
| death_place=
| party =[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| spouse=Ernestine Misslbeck Schlant Bradley (married 1974 to 2007, divorced)<br>
'''One stepdaughter''':<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Warren and Susan "Susie" Crowe Bradley
| alma_mater=[[Princeton University]] (Bachelor of Arts)<br>Worcester College, Oxford ([[Master of Arts]]])
| occupation=[[Basketball]] player
| branch=[[United States Air Force]] Reserves
}}
'''William Warren Bradley''' , known as '''Bill Bradley''' (born July 28, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] and a former professional [[basketball]] player. He served three terms from 1979 to 1997 as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the [[United States Senate]] for his adopted state of [[New Jersey]]. He ran for the 2000 Democratic Party presidential nomination, which he lost by a wide margin to [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Al Gore, Jr.]], the [[Tennessee]]an who then lost in a disputed vote to [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[George W. Bush]], then the governor of [[Texas]].
Bradley was born and reared in Crystal City, a small town south of [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. He excelled at basketball from an early age and also did well academically. Her was offered seventy-five college scholarships, but declined them all to attend [[Princeton University]] in New Jersey. He won a gold medal at the 1964 United States men's Olympic basketball team and was the "Player of the Year'' of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1965, when Princeton finished third in the NCAA Tournament. After graduating from Princeton in 1965, he attended Oxford on a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] and hence delayed a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the [[National Basketball Association]].<ref>Bioguide Search (congress.gov), accessed April 15, 2022.</ref>
He retired from the NBA in 1977, and took advantage of his popularity from basketball to run to succeed [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clifford P. Case]] in the United States Senate. Case lost his [[primary]] for renomination in 1978 to the [[conservative]] Jeffrey Langley Bell (1943-2018), who ran again unsuccessfully for the Senate thirty-six years later in 2014 against Democrat [[Cory Booker]]. Bradley polled 1,082,960 votes (55.3 percent) to Bell's 844,200 (43.1 percent).
Thirty-one bills which Bradley introduced in the Senate became law, including appropriations for the Gateway National Recreation Area, the Coastal Heritage Trail, and Wild and Scenic River Act. He also obtained fifteen additional acres for the Morristown Historical Park in Morristown, New Jersey.<ref>William “Bill” Bradley, former Senator for New Jersey - GovTrack.us, accessed April 15, 2022.</ref>
In 1984, Bradley won a second term, carrying every county, over the Republican Mary V. Mochary despite the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidential reelection in New Jersey. In 1990, in his bid for his third and final term, Bradley narrowly defeated the liberal Republican [[Christine Todd Whitman]], who later served as [[governor]] of New Jersey.
Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently in 2012 ''We Can All Do Better,''<ref>'We Can All Do Better (billbradley.com), accessed April 15, 2022.</ref> and he hosts a weekly radio show, ''American Voices'', on Sirius Satellite Radio.<ref>American Voices on Sirius/XM Radio (billbradley.com), accessed April 15, 2022.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradley, Bill}}
[[Category:Basketball]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]