Thomas Howard Kean (/ˈkeɪn/ KAYN;[1] born April 21, 1935) is an American businessman, academic administrator and politician who served as the 48th governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990 as a Republican. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the September 11 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. He was appointed to this post by U.S. President George W. Bush. Upon the completion of his second term as governor, he served as the President of Drew University for 15 years until his retirement in 2005.
Kean was born in New York City to a long line of New Jersey politicians and family of Dutch Americans. His mother was Elizabeth (née Howard) and his father, Robert Kean, was a U.S. Representative. His grandfather Hamilton Fish Kean and great-uncle John Kean both served as U.S. Senators. His second great-uncle was Hamilton Fish, a U.S. Senator, Governor of New York, and the 26th U.S. Secretary of State. Kean's relative, William Livingston, was a delegate to the Continental Congress and the first Governor of New Jersey.[2] His mother is also of partial Irish descent as a descendant of John Neilson.
Kean was initially educated at The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. When he reached the fourth grade, he entered St. Albans School. In 1946, at the age of eleven, his parents then enrolled him at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, the alma mater of his father and two older brothers.
After graduating from St. Mark's, he attended Princeton University and graduated with a B.A. in history in 1957 after completing a senior thesis titled "Niemcewicz (The Biography of a Polish Patriot, 1756-1842, Including His Impressions of America, 1797-1807)."[4] While at Princeton, Kean participated in the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.[5] After working on his father's unsuccessful senatorial campaign, and as a history teacher for three years at St. Mark's School, Kean attended Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City and earned his M.A. in history.
Kean met Deborah Bye at a party in Manhattan and the couple began dating in October 1966.[6] Bye and Kean married at the Old Drawyers Church in Odessa, Delaware, on June 3, 1967.[6][7][8][9] Kean was a longtime resident of Livingston, New Jersey, where he moved to in 1967 during his first campaign for office.
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