U.S. Sen. Warner named 2008 Andrews Fellow
(Williamsburg, VA) – U.S. Senator John Warner (R-Va.) has been named
the 2008 Hunter B. Andrews Fellow in American Politics at the College
of William and Mary.
The fellowship, in its eighth year, honors the late Virginia state
senator for whom it is named. Warner will be on campus April 4 to meet
with students, faculty and staff. He will also speak at a town hall
meeting on Friday, April 4, at 3:30 p.m. in Blow Memorial Hall, Room
201. This event is free and open to the public.
"Senator Warner's career of public service holds extraordinary lessons
in citizenship for us all," said W. Taylor Reveley III, interim
president of William and Mary. "We are honored to welcome him once
again to the College, and look forward to recognizing him as the 2008
Andrews Fellow."
Warner started his career in public service as a sailor in the U.S.
Navy during the final year of World War II, and subsequently served in
Korea during that war in the Marine Corps.
Upon finishing his law degree in 1953 at the University of Virginia, he
was selected to be the law clerk for the late Chief Judge E. Barrett
Prettyman of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Three years later, he
was appointed to be an assistant U.S. attorney. In 1960, he entered
private law practice with the firm of Hogan & Hartson.
Warner served in the Department of the Navy for more than five years
during the Vietnam War, beginning in 1969 as undersecretary of the
Navy, and subsequently as secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974.
After his work with the Navy, Warner was appointed by the president to
coordinate the bicentennial celebration of the founding of the United
States. In that position, he directed the federal role at events in all
50 states and in 22 foreign countries.
Warner has won five consecutive elections to the U.S. Senate, starting
in 1978. Now in his 29th year in office, Warner is the
second-longest-serving U.S. senator from Virginia in the 218-year
history of the Senate. He currently serves on the Senate’s Armed
Services, Intelligence, Environment and Public Works, and Homeland
Security and Government Affairs committees. In August 2007, on the
steps of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Warner announced he
would not seek a sixth term in the Senate.
In 1981, the College of William and Mary presented him with the honorary degree of doctor of laws.
The Hunter B. Andrews Fellowship was established in 1998 by friends of
the former state senator and William and Mary alumnus, who passed away
in 2005. The fellowship program brings notable journalists, politicians
and academicians to campus each year to interact with students and
faculty. Previous fellows have included Washington Post columnist David
Broder, who inaugurated the fellowship; Sandy Berger, national security
advisor to President Bill Clinton; Tom Foley, 49th speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives; U.S. Congressman and noted civil rights
leader John Lewis; New York Times columnist and author David Brooks;
and journalist, editor and author Walter Isaacson. The 2007 Hunter B.
Andrews Fellow was Thomas E. Mann, a political scientist and author.
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