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Burr, Richard Mauze
1955 - Burr was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on the 30th of November.
1974-1978 - He graduated from Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, N.C. and earned a B.A. from Wake Forest University.
1992 - Burr ran against incumbent Democrat Stephen L. Neal, losing the general election by a small percentage.
1994 - He ran again, and was elected to Congress. Burr is a board member of Brenner Children's Hospital, as well as of the group Idealliance a group of local, academic, and government officials working to expand North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad Research Park, which involves bio-hazard and chemical, vaccines research.
2004 - In July, Burr won the Republican primary to seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat John Edwards. He faced Democrat Erskine Bowles and Libertarian Tom Bailey.
2007 - In May, he was one of fourteen Senators to vote against the Iraq War funding bill despite his strong support of the war, due to his opposition to the clauses of the bill that provide for an increase in domestic spending and assistance.
- On the 26th of June, Burr voted in favor of cloture for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.
1974-1978 - He graduated from Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, N.C. and earned a B.A. from Wake Forest University.
1992 - Burr ran against incumbent Democrat Stephen L. Neal, losing the general election by a small percentage.
1994 - He ran again, and was elected to Congress. Burr is a board member of Brenner Children's Hospital, as well as of the group Idealliance a group of local, academic, and government officials working to expand North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad Research Park, which involves bio-hazard and chemical, vaccines research.
2004 - In July, Burr won the Republican primary to seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat John Edwards. He faced Democrat Erskine Bowles and Libertarian Tom Bailey.
2007 - In May, he was one of fourteen Senators to vote against the Iraq War funding bill despite his strong support of the war, due to his opposition to the clauses of the bill that provide for an increase in domestic spending and assistance.
- On the 26th of June, Burr voted in favor of cloture for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.
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