McPherson, Bruce
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| Birthname | Bruce Alexander McPherson | ||||
| born on | 7 January 1944 at 09:00 (= 09:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Santa Cruz, California, 36n58, 122w02 | ||||
| Timezone | PWT h7w (is war time) | ||||
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Biography
American politician, a Republican from Santa Cruz County, who served as the 30th California Secretary of State, 30 March 2005 to 8 January 2007. 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 and his wife have a daughter, Tori Kistler. Their son, Hunter, was murdered in a 2001 San Francisco street robbery.
McPherson left the Republican Party in June 2012 to register as "no party preference". In November 2012, McPherson was elected to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.
Relationships
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Bustamante, Cruz (born 4 January 1953). Notes: Political opponents
- parent->child relationship with McPherson, Hunter (born 25 August 1974)
Events
- Death of Child 17 November 2001 at 05:30 AM in San Francisco (His son Hunter died from gunshot wound)
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided copy of birth news, Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California), 7 January 1944, page 3, born at Santa Cruz Hospital.
Categories
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (Mary Frances Bohan)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (One)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event (Son Hunter murdered)
- Vocation : Politics : Candidate and lost (Lieutenant Governor of California, 2002)
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation (Ex-Republican, Independent)
- Vocation : Politics : Public office (30th California Secretary of State, 2005-2007)
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Editor of "Santa Cruz Sentinel")
- 1944 births
- Birthday 7 January
- Birthplace Santa Cruz, CA (US)
- Sun 16 Capricorn
- Moon 15 Gemini
- Asc 25 Capricorn
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event
- Vocation : Politics : Candidate and lost
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation
- Vocation : Politics : Public office
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
