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Dan Glickman

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman is an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America from 2004-2010 and is now the president of Refugees International. He also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the board of Friends of the World Food Program. Glickman is a Freemason. Glickman was born in Wichita, Kansas to a Jewish family. The Glickman family operated Glickman Inc., a full-service scrap metal operation, since 1915 and Kansas Metal, an automobile and appliance shredder, since 1994. Glickman Inc. was founded by Jacob Glickman and later continued and expanded by Milton and Bill Glickman. With the death of Milton Glickman, Dan's father, in December 1999, Dan and his siblings Norman and Sharon Glickman carried on the family business until it was sold in 2002.