Sam Nunn
Overview
Nunn worked extensively on defense and security and chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee. After Congress, he pursued law, teaching and nonprofit global-security work.[1]
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Key facts
1938–1962Early Life and Education
Born in Macon, Georgia, on September 8, 1938, Nunn attended school in Perry and Georgia Tech from 1956 to 1959. He graduated from Emory in 1961, earned its law degree in 1962 and entered the Georgia bar.[1]
1959–1972Coast Guard and State Legislature
Nunn served in the Coast Guard from 1959 to 1960 and in its reserve until 1968. He served in Georgia’s House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972.[1]
1972–1997U.S. Senate
Nunn won a November 1972 special election, took office on November 8 and won three subsequent reelections. His service ended January 3, 1997, after he declined to run in 1996.[1]
Defense Reorganization and Threat Reduction
Nunn worked on Defense Department reorganization and, with Richard Lugar, advanced cooperative threat reduction to help Russia and other former Soviet republics secure and dismantle excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.[2]
After the Senate: Nuclear Threat Initiative
Nunn co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with Ted Turner and served as CEO for sixteen years, ending in June 2017. He also taught at Georgia Tech and served as CSIS chairman emeritus.[2]
2014Theranos Board Record
TheranosTheranosTheranos was a blood-testing company founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes and based in Palo Alto, California, which offered retail testing with Walgreens and was valued at up to $9 billion before regulatory sanctions and criminal charges over alleged fraud in its technology and financial claims led to its dissolution in 2018.Open the full entry’s July 15, 2014 board record lists Nunn with a notation that he called in.[3]