Alan K. Simpson served in the U.S. Senate (R-Wyoming) from January 1979 to 1997, where he was the Assistant Republican Leader, chairman of the Subcommittee of Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security and member of the Committee on Aging, and chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee. In the spring of 1997, Simpson traveled from Washington to Cambridge and served as the Visiting Lombard Lecturer at the Kennedy School, under the auspices of the Shorenstein Center.
Theodore H. White Lecture with Alan K. Simpson
November 12, 2013
November 12, 2013 – The 24th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was deliverd by The Honorable Alan K. Simpson, U.S. Senator, Wyoming (1979-1997), and the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism was presented to Leonard Pitts, Jr., columnist, the Miami Herald.
