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He was 83. Funeral services are pending. Considered at one time to be Oklahoma's most popular conservative Democrat, Boren attended Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a professor at Oklahoma Baptist University around the same time he first ran for public office − earning a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1966.

With his retirement from OU in 2018, David Boren concluded a half-century public career. It included three decades in elected office, during which he never lost an election.