Attorney General of New Hampshire
Which position did Warren Rudman hold from 1970 to 1976?
Warren Rudman Warren Bruce Rudman ( May 18 , 1930November 19 , 2012 ) was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993 . He was known as a moderate centrist , to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clintons cabinet , an offer that Rudman declined . After two terms in office , Rudman chose not to run for re-election in 1992 . At the time of his death , he was a co-chair of Albright Stonebridge Group ; a retired partner in the international law firm Paul , Weiss , Rifkind , Wharton & Garrison ; and an advisory board member of Promontory Financial Group . He previously sat on the board of directors of Raytheon , Collins & Aikman , Allied Waste , Boston Scientific and a number of funds in the Dreyfus Family of Funds . Early life and education . Rudman was born in Boston , Massachusetts , the son of Theresa ( née Levenson ) and Edward G . Rudman . His family were Jewish immigrants from Germany , Poland , and Russia . Rudman lived his entire life in New Hampshire , with few exceptions . He attended the Valley Forge Military Academy boarding school in Wayne , Pennsylvania . He received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University , and served in the United States Army during the Korean War . He received his law degree from Boston College Law School in 1960 , and was appointed Attorney General of New Hampshire in 1970 ; serving in that capacity until 1976 . Career . From 2004 to 2006 , Rudman led a team of attorneys that investigated accounting practices at Fannie Mae . Prior to the September 11 attacks , Rudman had served on a now oft-cited national panel investigating the threat of international terrorism . He , along with fellow former Senator Gary Hart ( D-CO ) , chaired the panel , and both Rudman and Hart have been lauded since September 11 for their prescient conclusions . Rudman was an Advisory Board member and Co-Chair of the Partnership for a Secure America , a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy . Rudman was one of the few Jewish politicians elected in New Hampshire . He spent his final years as a resident of Hollis , New Hampshire , a suburb of both Nashua and Boston . He was the author of a memoir called Combat . Senate career . Rudman defeated incumbent John Durkin in the 1980 election , riding the wave of Ronald Reagans landslide victory . Durkin resigned and the Governor appointed Rudman to fill the vacancy in late December 1980 . Rudman served on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Ethics Committee . His best-known legislative effort was the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act . A moderate Republican , Rudman was conservative on matters of fiscal and defense policy—favoring tax cuts , reduced domestic spending , and higher military spending , but liberal on social issues—supporting a womans right to choose to have an abortion , gay rights , and opposing a constitutional amendment mandating voluntary school prayer . Rudman , along with John H . Sununu , was a key player in the appointment of Rudmans personal friend , Supreme Court Justice David Souter , to both the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court . The Wall Street Journal later editorialized about the appointment , saying : Rudman , the man who helped put liberal jurist David Souter on the high court and who in his Yankee Republican liberalism took pride in recounting how he sold Mr . Souter to gullible White House chief of staff John Sununu as a confirmable conservative . Then they both sold the judge to President Bush , who wanted above all else to avoid a confirmation battle . Rudman wrote in his memoir that he had suspected all along that Souter would not overturn activist liberal precedents . Sununu later said of Rudman , In spite of it all , hes a good friend . But Ive always known that he was more liberal than he liked the world to think he was . Post-Senate years . After leaving the Senate , Rudman was twice considered as a possible vice presidential candidate on the ticket of two parties other than the GOP . In 1996 , Ross Perot offered Rudman the slot to be his vice presidential running mate on the Reform Party ticket , but Rudman refused ( as did former Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma ) . Perot eventually selected Pat Choate . Also , in 2004 , Rudman was mentioned as possible running mate for Democratic nominee John Kerry . Kerry eventually selected John Edwards . Rudman did accept Senator John McCains offer to serve as campaign chair in McCains 2000 presidential campaign . On January 8 , 2001 , he was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Clinton . He was a co-chair , along with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger , of Albright Stonebridge Group , a global business consulting and strategy firm based in Washington , D.C . He died of cancer on November 19 , 2012 . His death came only a month after his predecessor John Durkin had died . After his death , President Obama praised Rudman as an early advocate for fiscal responsibility .