Bruce Kerry Chapman

Background

Chapman, Bruce Kerry was born on December 1, 1940 in Evanston. Son of Landon Lincoln Chapman and Darroll Jesamine (Carlson Swanson) Shinn.

Education

Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1962; Doctorate (honorary), Monmouth (Illinois) College, 1983.

Career

He was previously a journalist, a Republican politician, and a diplomat. After graduating from Harvard University in 1962, he served in the United States. Air Force Reserves, and worked as an editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1966 he moved to Seattle and wrote a book entitled The Wrong Manitoba in Uniform, arguing against conscription.

With his college roommate George Gilder, he wrote an attack on the anti-intellectual policies of Barry Goldwater titled The Party That Lost Its Head (1966).

He was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1971. In 1975, he was appointed Secretary of State of Washington.

Chapman was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the position of Director of the United States Census Bureau and served in that role from 1981 until 1983. Between 1983 and 1985 he was Deputy Assistant to President Reagan and Director of the White House Office of Planning and Evaluation.

From 1985 to 1988 he served in the appointed position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna.

His portfolio included nuclear proliferation, refugees, economic development, and the control of narcotics. = Intelligent design From 1988 to 1990, Chapman was a fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. In 1990, he left Hudson and founded the Discovery Institute.

The institute is best known as the hub of the Intelligent Design movement, and also focuses on a broad range of issues, including transportation and international cooperation in the Cascadia region.

Personal life

They have two sons, Adam and Andrew.

Achievements

• Bruce Kerry Chapman has been listed as a noteworthy Institute executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • The Party That Lost Its Head

    (1966 hardcover publication.)

  • The Wrong Man In Uniform Our Unfair and Obsolete Draft-and How We Can Replace It
  • The Party That Lost its Head - the Republican Collapse and Imperatives for Revival
  • The wrong man in uniform;: Our unfair and obsolete draft and how we can replace it

Membership

Chapman became active in politics through the Seattle Young Republicans, and became a member of the United States Republican Party.

Interests

• Avocations: travel, gardening, films.

Connections

Married Sarah Gilmore Williams, August 22, 1976. Children: Adam Winthrop, Andrew Howard.

Father:

Landon Lincoln Chapman Shinn

Mother:

Darroll Jesamine (Carlson Swanson) Shinn

Spouse:

Sarah Gilmore Williams

child:

Andrew Howard Chapman

child:

Adam Winthrop Chapman