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He received a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to study at Balliol College before completing his legal training at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. A Democrat who was frequently described as a conservative member of his party, he entered elected politics and served as the 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979. He then moved to the United States Senate, where he served three terms spanning 1979 to 1994. During his Senate career he held the chairmanship of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for longer than any other person in that committee's history. He also held the rank of captain and worked as a lawyer and jurist alongside his political roles.\n\nWhen Boren left the Senate in 1994, he became the 13th president of the University of Oklahoma, a position he held for twenty-four years. His departure from the Senate also carried a particular distinction: he remained, at the time of his death, the last Democrat to have served as a United States Senator from Oklahoma.\n\nBoren died on February 20, 2025, in Norman, at the age of eighty-three. The Library of Congress authorized label for him reads \"Boren, David, 1941–2025,\" a designation that spans the arc from his birth in the nation's capital through his long career as a politician, lawyer, and university president. His record as the longest serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence stands as one of the more concrete measures of the role he occupied in American public life.","On September 20, 2017, David Lyle Boren announced his retirement as president of the University of Oklahoma, closing out a tenure that had begun in 1994 and would formally end on June 30, 2018. 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