- Bruce Chapman
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name = Bruce Chapman
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birth_date = 1940
birth_place = Evanston,Illinois ,USA
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occupation = Former politician, current think-tank fellow
title = Director of theDiscovery Institute
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religion =Roman Catholic
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weight =Bruce K. Chapman (born 1940 in Evanston,
Illinois ) is the director and founder of theDiscovery Institute , an American conservative think tank often associated with the religious right. [ [http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/Forrest_Paper.pdf Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals. A Position Paper from the Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy]Barbara Forrest . May, 2007.] [Patricia O’Connell Killen, a religion professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma whose work centers on the regional religious identity of the Pacific Northwest, recently wrote that "religiously inspired think tanks such as the conservative evangelical Discovery Institute" are part of the "religious landscape" of that area. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200502/ai_n9521923] ] He was previously ajournalist , a Republican Partypolitician and adiplomat .Biography
After graduating from
Harvard University in 1962Fact|date=July 2008, he served in theU.S. Air Force Reserves , and worked as an editorial writer for the "New York Herald Tribune ". In 1966 Chapman moved to Seattle and wrote a book entitled "The Wrong Man in Uniform", arguing againstconscription .With his college roommate
George Gilder , he wrote an attack on the anti-intellectual policies ofBarry Goldwater entitled The Party That Lost Its Head (1966).Chapman became active in politics through the Seattle Young Republicans, and became a member of the
United States Republican Party . He was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1971. In 1975, he was appointedSecretary of State of Washington . He campaigned for the office ofGovernor of Washington in 1980, but ultimately did not win the Republican nomination.Chapman was appointed by President
Ronald Reagan to the position of Director of theUnited States Census Bureau and served in that role from 1981 until 1983. Between 1983 and 1985 he was Deputy Assistant to President Reagan and Director of theWhite House Office of Planning and Evaluation. From 1985 to 1988 he served in the appointed position of United States Ambassador to theUnited Nations Organizations inVienna . His portfolio includednuclear proliferation ,refugee s,economic development , and the control ofnarcotics .From 1988 to 1990 Chapman was a fellow at the
Hudson Institute , a conservative think tank. In 1990 , he left Hudson and founded theDiscovery Institute . The institute is best known as the hub of theIntelligent Design movement , [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1407612,00.html What is...'Intelligent Design?'] Terence Kealey. The Times, UK, December 18 2004.] and also focuses on a broad range of issues, including transportation and international cooperation in the Cascadia region.Chapman is a
Roman Catholic and is married to the former Sarah Gilmore Williams (a great-granddaughter ofTheodore Roosevelt ), with whom he has two sons, Adam and Andrew.References
External links
* [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=7&isFellow=true Bruce Chapman biography] from the
Discovery Institute
* [http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0605/discovery-darwin.php Discovery's Creation] A brief history of the founding of the Discovery institute and how the Wedge Document was made public.
* [http://www.secstate.wa.gov/office/secretary_history.aspx Articles on Secretaries of State for Washington]
* [http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=5010656 Lecture by Bruce Chapman on "What Does A Think Tank Think About?" in July, 2006] Mr. Chapman provides a tour of the think tank world and explains how "policy wonks" influence public policy.
* [http://www.crosscut.com/seattle/13794/ Evolution of a think tank] — "A journalist comes of age with Bruce Chapman, watching him launch Seattle's Discovery Institute and the intelligent design movement."
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