People from Bismarck, North Dakota - Kent Conrad, Leslie Bibb, Annella Zervas, Brooks Bollinger, Jack Patera, John Hoeven, Gary Cederstrom (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Kent Conrad, Leslie Bibb, Annella Zervas, Brooks Bollinger, Jack Patera, John Hoeven, Gary Cederstrom, Mark Kellogg, Weston Dressler, Gan McGee, Ed Schafer, Becky Fischer, Virgil Hill, Paul Moser, Jeffrey Fowler, Matt Freije, Paul J. Register, Molly Wood, Scott Fankhouser, Drew Wrigley, Greg Eslinger, Jack Dunham, Neil Churchill, Sam Aanestad, Tracy Potter, Chrissa Miller, Rich Karlgaard, Andrew Vasquez, William A. Neumann, Mike Peluso, Dan Williamson, Bruce Van Sickle, Stanley Ross, Monica Hannan, Lance Kramer, Carol Ronning Kapsner, John Warford, Carmen Berg. Excerpt: Gaylord Kent Conrad (born March 12, 1948) is the senior United States Senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is currently chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. On January 18, 2011, Conrad announced that he would not run for re-election in 2012, but will instead retire. Conrad said in a statement that it was more important that "I spend my time and energy trying to focus on solving the nation's budget woes than be distracted by another campaign." Conrad was born in Bismarck, North Dakota and lived much of his early life in Bismarck. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his grandparents. He attended Roosevelt Elementary and Hughes Junior High, and several years of high school in Tripoli, Libya. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy before attending college at Stanford, and received an M.B.A. from the George Washington University. Conrad has been married twice. His first wife, Pam, is the sister of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former North Dakota Governor Ed Schafer. They had one daughter, Jessamyn. On Valentine's Day 1987, Conrad married Lucy Calautti, his 1986 Senate campaign manager who is cu...