Byron Dorgan

Biography

Byron L. Dorgan was a congressman and senator for North Dakota for 30 years before retiring from the Senate in 2011. In the Senate, he served for 16 years in party leadership positions, first as assistant Democratic floor leader and then as chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. He served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and was a member of the Appropriations, Commerce, Energy, and Natural Resources committees.

Dorgan is now a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is an adjunct and visiting professor at Georgetown University and works part-time as a senior policy advisor with the Washington, D.C., law firm Arent Fox. He also chairs the Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth, which assists Native American children with an emphasis on teen suicide prevention.

Dorgan is the author of a New York Times bestseller, Take this Job and Ship It, and a second book, Reckless… How Debt, Deregulation, and Dark Money Nearly Bankrupted America (And How We Can Fix It). He co-authored three novels:Blowout, Gridlock, and The Girl in the Photograph.