Researching Barry Keene
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1767 people with the Keene surname? In that year Keene was ranked number 1979 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Barry means "Dweller of the barrier" and is of French origin.
Records of Barry Keene on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Barry Keene and the Keene Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Keene Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Keene family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 1752 people with the Keene surname in the UK? Keene is now ranked number 2504 for popularity in the UK. |
Keene Family History Databases
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Keene Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 21268 people with the Keene surname in the USA? Keene is ranked number 150 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Keene Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Barry Keene. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Barry Keene
Barry Keene
Barry Dion Keene (born July 30, 1938) is an American politician.
Keene earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and his law degree from Stanford Law School. He became a member of the California Bar in 1966, and accepted a legal position as a Sonoma CountyDeputy District Attorney in 1968. In 1968 he won his first election to the Rincon Valley School Board.
Two years later he won the Democratic nomination for the 2nd Assembly District which included the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, Lake County and a portion of Sonoma County.
In the 1970 General Election he tried to unseat longtime Republican Assemblyman Frank P. Belotti. However, Keene lost his first race in a narrow election. Keene successfully ran again for the Assembly in 1972 following the death of Assemblyman Belotti.
Keene served six years in the State Assembly holding leadership positions as the chair of the Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee and later, as the chairman of the Assembly Health Committee. In 1979 Keene was urged to consider running for an open vacancy in the State Senate. The district included the 2nd Assembly District and all of Marin County, spanning over one-third of the entire California coastline, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.
Keene won the election in 1979 and served in several powerful positions in the State Senate until his resignation on December 15, 1992. While in the Senate, Keene held the Chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and later served as the California Senate Majority Leader. During his political tenure, Keene worked on:
* Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (1967), which required official meetings of state boards and commissions to follow rules similar to those of the Brown Act;* The Keene Act, the first comprehensive medical malpractice statute; and* The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1990.
Upon leaving the legislature, Keene taught politics at Sacramento State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford. In 2000, he was appointed by Governor Gray Davis as the Director of the California Department of General Services. In 2008 he was appointed to the California Student Aid Commission.
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