Bruce McPherson

Infobox Officeholder
name = Bruce A. McPherson


order = 30^th California Secretary of State
term_start = March 30 2005
term_end = January 7 2007
deputy =
predecessor = Cathy Mitchell
successor = Debra Bowen
birth_date = Birth date and age|1944|1|7|mf=y
birth_place = Santa Cruz, California
death_date =
death_place =
constituency =
party = Republican
spouse = Mary McPherson
profession =
religion =


footnotes =

:"For the Australian jurist, see Bruce McPherson (Australian judge)."Bruce A. McPherson (born January 7 1944) is a California politician who was the 30th California Secretary of State, sworn in March 30 2005. He was nominated to replace former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, who resigned on March 4. McPherson, a Republican from Santa Cruz County, served his term as Secretary until January 8 2007. He was confirmed unanimously by both Democratic-controlled houses of the California State Legislature after being nominated to replace Shelley, a Democrat, by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He lost his bid for a full term to Democrat Debra Bowen in November 2006.

Previously, McPherson was a State Assemblyman from 1993 to 1996 and a State Senator from 1996 to 2004, when he retired due to term limits. McPherson was defeated in the 2002 election for Lieutenant Governor of California by incumbent Cruz Bustamante. Prior to his political career, he worked as the editor of the "Santa Cruz Sentinel", a newspaper owned by his family. He is married, and he and his wife have a daughter, Tori Kistler. Their son, Hunter, was tragically murdered in a 2001 San Francisco street robbery.

Electoral history

*2006 Race for California Secretary of State
**Debra Bowen (D), 48.4%
**Bruce McPherson (R), (inc.) 44.8%

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060502084320/http://www.ss.ca.gov/executive/bio.htm Biography from the State of California (May 2, 2006 version at the Internet Archive)]
* [http://www.smartvoter.org/2006/11/07/ca/state/vote/mcpherson_b/ Biography from the California League of Women Voters]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060425162037/http://www.mcpherson2006.com/ McPherson's 2006 campaign website (April 25, 2006 version at the Internet Archive)]