Ralph Nader

Biography

Personal

Birthdate: February 27, 1934 (Winsted, Conneticut)

Religion: Catholic

Education

• Harvard Law School, L.L.B., 1958
• Princeton University, A.B., 1955

Experience

Military Service:

U.S. Army, 1955

Businesses Owned, Past Careers, Board Memberships, Etc.:

• Founder, Public Citizen research group, 1971
• Helped start many liberal and consumer rights advocacy non-profits

Public Service / Elected Offices:

• Professor of History and Governments, Univerisity of Hartford (1961-1963)
• Consultant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1964)

Book(s)

• Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile (1965)
• Action for a Change (1973)
• Whistle-Blowing (1972)
• Corporate Power in America
• You and Your Pension
• The Consumer and Corporate Accountability
• In Pursuit of Justice
• Corporate Power in America
• Ralph Nader Congress Report
• Ralph Nader Presents: A Citizen's Guide to Lobbying
• Verdicts on Lawyers
• Who's Poisoning America
• The Big Boys
• The Good Fight: Declare Your Independency and Close the Democracy Gap (2004)
• Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender (2002)
• Cutting Corporate Welfare (2000)
• No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, with Wesley J. Smith (2000)
• Collision Course: the Truth About Airline Safety, with Wesley J. Smith (1990)