Glen Browder

Glen Browder
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Alabama's 3rd district
In office
April 4, 1989 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byWilliam Flynt Nichols
Succeeded byBob Riley
45th Secretary of State of Alabama
In office
January 17, 1987 – January 3, 1989
GovernorH. Guy Hunt
Preceded byDon Siegelman
Succeeded byFred Crawford
Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
In office
1983-1986
Personal details
Born (1943-01-15) January 15, 1943 (age 81)
Sumter, South Carolina, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseSara Rebecca Moore Browder
ChildrenJenny Rebecca Browder
ResidenceJacksonville, Alabama
Alma materPresbyterian College
Emory University

John Glen Browder (born January 15, 1943) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 3rd congressional district. Browder was born in Sumter, South Carolina and graduated in 1961 from Edmunds High School in Sumter. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, in 1965. He went on to obtain a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1971.

Before earning his graduate degrees, Browder served a brief stint in 1966 as a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal. He worked from 1966 to 1968 as an investigator with the United States Civil Service Commission. After his time at Emory, he became a professor of political science at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. He served on the faculty from 1971 to 1987. From 1978 to 1987, he was the president of Data Associates in Anniston, Alabama, primarily conducting polls and managing campaigns for candidates for public office.