Background
Broadwater, Oscar Jefferson was born on June 12, 1955 in Batesville, Arkansas, United States. Son of Oscar Jefferson Senior and Virginia (Gainer) Broadwater.
Broadwater, Oscar Jefferson was born on June 12, 1955 in Batesville, Arkansas, United States. Son of Oscar Jefferson Senior and Virginia (Gainer) Broadwater.
Bachelor, Harding U., 1976; Juris Doctor, U. Arkansas, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1989.
Assistant counsel, Arkansas Public Svc. Commission, Little Rock, 1980-1983; associate, Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Little Rock, 1983-1986; Adjunct Professor, Arkansas Technology U., Russellville, 1989; visiting lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1990; director oral history project, Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1990-1992; assistant professor of history, Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina.
Member Nature Conservatory, American Civil Liberties Union, World Wildlife Federation. Member American Association of University Professors, Supreme Court History Society, American History Association, Organisation of America Historians, Oral History Association, Mississippi History Society, Society for Historians of America Foreign Rels., Sierra Club, Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Rhonda Bates, April 21, 1984.