Warren Rudman - Post-Senate Years

Post-Senate Years

After leaving the Senate, Rudman was twice considered as a possible Vice Presidential candidate on the ticket of two parties other than the GOP. In 1996, Ross Perot offered Rudman the slot to be his vice presidential running mate on the Reform Party ticket, but Rudman refused (as former Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma did). Perot eventually selected Pat Choate.

Also, in 2004, Rudman was mentioned as possible running mate for Democratic nominee John Kerry. Kerry eventually selected John Edwards.

Rudman did accept Senator John McCain's offer to serve as campaign chair in McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. The Warren B. Rudman United States Courthouse in Concord is named for him. On January 8, 2001, he was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Clinton. He was a founder and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Concord Coalition.

He was a co-chair, along with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business consulting and strategy firm based in Washington, D.C.

He died of cancer on November 19, 2012.

Ironically, his death occurred just slightly over a month after the death of John Durkin, his predecessor as US Senator from New Hampshire, whom Rudman defeated in 1980 when Durkin sought re-election. Durkin died on October 16, 2012.