Edmunds High School
Glen Browder went to which school from 1960 to 1961?
Glen Browder John Glen Browder ( born January 15 , 1943 ) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabamas 3rd congressional district . Browder was born in Sumter , South Carolina and graduated in 1961 from Edmunds High School in Sumter . He attended Presbyterian College in Clinton , South Carolina , having received a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1965 . He went on to obtain a Master of Arts and Ph.D . in political science from Emory University in Atlanta , Georgia , in 1971 . Before earning his graduate degrees , Browder served a brief stint in 1966 as a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal . He worked from 1966 to 1968 as an investigator with the United States Civil Service Commission . After his time at Emory , he became a professor of political science at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville , Alabama . He served on the faculty from 1971 to 1987 . From 1978 to 1987 , he was the president of Data Associates in Anniston , Alabama , primarily conducting polls and managing campaigns for candidates for public office . Political career . Browders political career began in the Alabama statehouse , where he served in the Alabama House of Representatives , 1983-86 . Upon taking office in January 1983 , Browder was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee and the Constitution and Elections Committee . At the end of Browders first year , Gov . George Wallace appointed him to the Ways and Means Committee . Browder and Wallace worked closely on improving education in Alabama . Following passage of Browders Education Reform Act in 1984 , which provided for the formation of the Governors Education Reform Commission , Wallace appointed Browder vice chairman of the commission to formulate and implement a series of measures to bring the quality of education in the state up to national standards . Browders major accomplishments in the legislature were passing the Browder Education Reform Act of 1984 , the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Act of 1985 , and the Alabama Performance-Based Career Incentive Program ( Teacher Career Ladder ) Act of 1985 . His colleagues included him among their Outstanding Legislator ranks in 1985 and 1986 , and he received special commendations from crime victims , social workers , and school financial aid administrators . After one term in the state legislature , Browder was elected to the office of Alabama Secretary of State , serving from 1987 to 1989 . During Browders tenure , the Secretary of States office digitized the state’s record-keeping system , established a training system for poll workers , monitored the handling of absentee ballots , purged voter rolls of ineligible — mainly deceased — voters , and registered hundreds of new voters through public outreach . Browder established and chaired the statewide Alabama Elections Reform Commission to recommend and popularize changes to outdated laws governing the states elections . His main accomplishment as Secretary of State was the passage of his Fair Campaign Practices Act of 1988 , which replaced the Corrupt Practices Act of 1915 and remains the basis of campaign finance reporting law in the state . He was elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First Congress , by special election , to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William F . Nichols , and re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses ( April 4 , 1989 – January 3 , 1997 ) . In the House , Browder served on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Budget Committee . He focused on military readiness and balancing the federal budget . He successfully defended Fort McClellan , an Army training base in his district , from three efforts to close it in the early 1990s . ( The Army eventually won authorization to close the base in 1995. ) In 1992-93 , he chaired a two-year special House inquiry , Countering the Chemical and Biological Threat in the Post-Soviet World . He advocated for benefits for veterans returning from Operation Desert Storm and study of a set of symptoms that would come to be known as Gulf War Syndrome . Browder , a moderate Democrat , was a founding member of the Blue Dog Coalition in late 1994 . As chairman of the Blue Dogs Budget Committee and a member of the House Budget Committee , Browder introduced ideas that would eventually form the basis of bipartisan agreement in the contentious 1996 federal budget . Browder authored the Blue Dogs budget proposals to use savings from spending cuts to pay down the federal deficit and make tax cuts dependent on meeting deficit-reduction goals . He did not seek re-election to the House of Representatives in 1996 , and his seat went to the Republican Bob Riley . Browder was instead an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate election in Alabama , 1996 , losing in the Democratic Primary to Alabama State Senator Roger Bedford , Jr. , who also proceeded to lose to Alabama Attorney General ( and future U.S . Attorney General ) Jeff Sessions . After Congress . Following his time in the House of Representatives , Browder accepted two academic positions , the first as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School ( 1997–present ) , with primary responsibility in the area of Congress and the Pentagon . He later returned to Jacksonville State University in Alabama as Eminent Scholar in American Democracy . He retired from JSU in 2005 as Emeritus Professor of American Democracy . He has published three books , The Future of American Democracy : A Former Congressmans Unconventional Analysis , University Press of America , 2002 ; The Souths New Racial Politics : Inside the Race Game of Southern History , NewSouth Books , 2009 ; and Stealth Reconstruction : An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History ( with Artemisia Stanberry ) , NewSouth Books , 2010 . External links . - The Future of American Democracy