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Bush | b.
July 6-
New Haven, CT |
Dean | b.
Nov. 17-
New York City |
Edwards |
Gephardt | b.
Jan. 31-
S. St. Louis, MO |
Graham
<<b. Nov. 9, 1936 - Dade County, FL |
Kerry | b.
Dec. 11-
Denver, CO |
Kucinich | b.
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Cleveland, OH |
Lieberman | b.
Feb. 24-
Stamford, CT |
Moseley Braun | b.
Aug. 16-
Chicago, IL |
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Most of the Democratic candidates and incumbent President George W. Bush were born in the 1940s. Sen. Bob Graham, born in 1936, is the oldest in the 2004 field and Sen. John Edwards and Rev. Al Sharpton are the youngest.
Notes
Howard Dean: "...the
proud patrician product of Park Avenue and 85th Street, the son, grandson,
and great-grandson of investment bankers. the son, grandson, and great-grandson
of investment bankers."
-Meryl
Gordon. "The Unlikely Rise of Howard Dean." New York,
Feb. 24, 2003.
Dick Gephardt: "Dick
Gephardt grew up in the same working class neighborhood on the south side
of St. Louis, Missouri, that he represents today in the U.S. Congress.
Gephardt's father, a milk truck driver and Teamster, taught him the value
of hard work. His mother, a secretary, taught him an appreciation
for the value of community and caring about the needs and aspirations of
others. While his parents didn't finish high school, they instilled
in him a lifelong desire to strive and succeed."
-Official
Candidate Biography.
Attended Mason Elementary
School in St. Louis.
Bob Graham: "Graham
is the son of Ernest 'Cap' Graham, a Florida state senator, mining engineer,
and dairy/cattleman, and Hilda Simmons Graham, a schoolteacher. He
is the youngest of four children."
-Official Senate Biography
John Kerry: "John
Kerry was born on December 11, 1943 at Fitzsimmons Military Hospital in
Denver, Colorado, where his father, Richard, who had volunteered to fly
DC-3's in the Army Air Corps in World War II, was recovering from a bout
with tuberculosis. Not long after Sen. Kerry's birth, his family returned
home to Massachusetts."
-Official Candidate Biography
Dennis Kucinich: "Kucinich
was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 8, 1946. He is the eldest
of 7 children of Frank and Virginia Kucinich. He and his family lived
in twenty-one places, including a couple of cars, by the time Kucinich
was 17 years old."
-Official Candidate Biography
Joe Lieberman: "Joe
Lieberman was born in Stamford, Connecticut on February 24, 1942, and attended
public schools there."
-Official Senate Biography
"I have seen America through
the eyes of my parents, Henry and Marcia Lieberman. My father lived
in an orphanage when he was a child. He went on to drive a bakery truck
and own a package store in Stamford, Connecticut. He taught my sisters
and me the importance of work and responsibility. With my mother
by his side, he saw me become the first person in my family to graduate
from college."
-Prepared Remarks, Democratic
National Convention, Los Angeles, CA Aug. 16, 2000
Moseley Braun: "Her
father, a law enforcement officer, was a consummate renaissance man, a
musician who mastered seven instruments and spoke several languages.
Her mother was a medical technician."
-Official Candidate Biography
President George W. Bush:
President Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, and
he grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas.
-Official Biography
Copyright © 2003 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action