Paul S. Trible, Jr.
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Paul S. Trible, Jr. (b. December 29, 1946) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1968 where he received his Bachelor of Arts in History. He received a Juris Doctor degree from Washington and Lee University Law School in 1971, and was admitted to the Virginia bar that same year. Trible served as a law clerk for the US District Court (1971-1972), as assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (1972-1974), and as the Commonwealth's Attorney for Essex County, Virginia (1974-1976) before winning election as a Republican to Congress in 1976. He won re-election in 1978 and 1980, and in 1982 received the Republican nomination for the US Senate seat vacated by Harry F. Byrd, Jr. In November 1982, he edged out Virginia Lieutenant Governor Richard Davis to win the Senate seat. He served in the Senate from 1983 to 1989, refusing to stand for re-election in 1988. Trible stepped down claiming he wanted to spend more time with his family. The hollow nature of this claim was revealed in 1989 when he sought the GOP nomination for Governor, running ahead of Stanford Parris but losing to Marshall Coleman. Many feel his 1988 decision was based not in family concern but in the likelihood that he would lose his reelection campaign to popular former Virginia governor Charles Robb.
In 1996, he became President of Christopher Newport University in Virginia, where he still serves today. Under Trible, CNU has grown immensely. Applications have soared by more than 400%, the average SAT score of incoming freshman has increased by over 200 points and the campus has added more than $350 million worth of construction, including new dormitories and student apartments, a new student center, a new library, and a state of the art performing arts center--The Ferguson Center for the Arts designed by I.M. Pei's world-renown architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. However, he has also come under fire for some of his methods, including the attempted cuts of the masters programs in Computer Science, Physics and Biology, and his treatment of professors who successfully opposed him in these attempted cuts.
He is married to Rosemary Dunaway Trible and has two children, Mary Katherine Trible Peters married to Barrett W. R. Peters, and Paul S. Trible, III.
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