Bryan Edwards Sharratt (October 13, 1947 - August 16, 2007) was a United States Navy and Air Force officer, a lawyer, a Certified Public Accountant, a real estate broker, and a Democratic politician from Wyoming. In 1988, he was his party's nominee in the race for Wyoming's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives against then incumbent and current U.S. Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney. Sharratt polled 56,527 votes (31.8...
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Bryan Edwards Sharratt (October 13, 1947 - August 16, 2007) was a United States Navy and Air Force officer, a lawyer, a Certified Public Accountant, a real estate broker, and a Democratic politician from Wyoming. In 1988, he was his party's nominee in the race for Wyoming's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives against then incumbent and current U.S. Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney. Sharratt polled 56,527 votes (31.8 percent) to Cheney's 118,350 (66.6 percent).
In 1992, Sharratt headed his state's campaign to elect Bill Clinton as the 42nd U.S. President. However, then President George Herbert Walker Bush won Wyoming's three electoral votes. In 2004, Sharratt headed the defense policy team for the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Senator John Forbes Kerry of Massachusetts. He also worked that year in the unsuccessful campaign to reelect Senator Thomas Daschle in neighboring South Dakota.
Sharratt, the youngest of three children of the late George...
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