David Lyle Boren is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently president of the University of Oklahoma. He was the longest serving Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Boren is part of the politically-prominent Boren family. His father, Lyle Boren, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947.



