Everything about James Bilbray totally explained
James Hubert Bilbray (born
May 19,
1938) is an
American politician and lawyer from
Nevada.
Born in
Las Vegas, Nevada, Bilbray graduated from
Las Vegas High School and attended the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas from
1959 to
1960. He received a
B.A. in government and public administration from
American University in
Washington, D.C. in
1962 and a
J.D. from the
Washington College of Law in
1964. He served in the
Nevada Army National Guard from
1955 to
1956 and in the Nevada Army Reserves from
1957 to
1963.
Bilbray practiced law and was deputy
district attorney of
Clark County, Nevada from
1965 to
1967. He was then chief legal counsel in the Clark County
juvenile court from
1967 to
1968 and was an alternate municipal judge in Las Vegas from
1978 to
1980. He became licensed to practice law before the
Nevada Gaming Commission and the
Nevada Gaming Control Board in
1970. A
Democrat, he served in the
Nevada State Senate from
1981 to
1987 where he was chairman of the Taxation Committee and was also a member of the Judiciary Committee. He successfully ran for the
U.S. House of Representatives in
1986 for the seat being vacated by
Harry Reid who had made a successful run for the
U.S. Senate. He served as chairman of the
Small Business Sub-Committee on Taxation, Tourism and Procurement and was also a member of the
Foreign Affairs,
Armed Services and
Intelligence Committees.
Bilbray lost his re-election campaign of
1994 to
Republican opponent
John Ensign. During that campaign, the newspapers revealed that a member of Bilbray's staff stood to profit millions of dollars from lands legislation sponsored by Bilbray himself. Bilbray lost to Ensign by 1,400 votes. He challenged Ensign for his former House seat in
1996, but lost again.
After leaving Congress, Bilbray joined the law firm of Kummer, Kaempfer, Bonner and Renshaw as
of counsel in
1996 where he's specialized in dealing with local, state and federal issues. In
2001, he received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for his work in state and federal government. He was appointed a commissioner on the
2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission and in
2006 was appointed a member of the
Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service by
President George W. Bush for a term ending in
2015. He currently resides in Las Vegas.
Bilbray is the cousin of
Republican congressman
Brian Bilbray of
California.
Further Information
Get more info on 'James Bilbray'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://james_bilbray.totallyexplained.com">James Bilbray Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
