What is Bruce Babbitt?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Bruce Babbitt |image = Bruce Babbitt 2007.jpg |office = 47th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] |president = [[Bill Clinton]] |term_start = January 22, 1993 |term_end = January 2, 2001 |predecessor = [[Manuel Lujan, Jr.|Manuel Lujan]] |successor = [[Gale Norton]] |order1 = 16th [[List of Governors of Arizona|Governor of Arizona]] |term_start1 = March 4, 1978 |term_end1 = January 6, 1987 |predecessor1 = [[Wesley Bolin]] |successor1 = [[Evan Mecham]] |office2 = 19th [[Arizona Attorney General|Attorney General of Arizona]] |governor2 = [[Raúl Héctor Castro|Raúl Castro]]<br>[[Wesley Bolin]] |term_start2 = January 6, 1975 |term_end2 = March 4, 1978 |predecessor2 = [[Warner Lee]] |successor2 = [[Jack LaSota]] |birth_name = Bruce Edward Babbitt |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|6|27}} |birth_place = [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]], [[Arizona]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = [[Harriet C. Babbitt|Hattie Coons]] |children = 2 |education = [[University of Notre Dame]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])}}<br>[[Newcastle University]] {{small|([[Master of Science|MS]])}}<br>[[Harvard University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])}} }} '''Bruce Edward Babbitt''' (born June 27, 1938) is an American politician from the state of [[Arizona]]. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], Babbitt served as the [[List of Governors of Arizona|16th governor of Arizona]] from 1978 to 1987, and as the [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] from 1993 through 2001. He unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for [[President of the United States]] in [[1988 United States presidential election|1988]]. Babbitt was born in [[Flagstaff, Arizona]], the son of Frances B. (Perry) and Paul James Babbitt, Sr.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/1e4d965e29a396a494060a114e70604b|title=Can