article_snippet: (CNN)Before this week, Boren didn't need to add to Boren resume.  
article_snippet: Boren Oklahoma was also a former governor, former U.S. senator and Rhodes scholar.
article_snippet: Boren spent nearly 30 years in elected office before becoming the 13th president of the University of Oklahoma in 1994.
article_snippet: Boren was a U.S. senator from 1979 to 1994, where Boren was the longest serving chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
article_snippet: Before that, Boren served four years as Oklahoma's governor.
article_snippet: Boren campaigned as a reformer, with a broom as Boren symbol, and when elected, Boren became the youngest governor in the state.
article_snippet: Boren was 33 at the time.
article_snippet: Boren is the first person in Oklahoma history to have served all three positions, according to Boren university biography.
article_snippet: Boren graduated from Yale University in 1963, in the top one percent of Boren class.
article_snippet: Boren was selected as a Rhodes scholar and earned a master's degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, England, in 1965.
article_snippet: Boren received Boren law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1968.
article_snippet: Both Boren father, Lyle, and Boren son, Dan, served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
highlights_snippet: Boren is the first person in Oklahoma history to serve as governor, senator and OU president .
  