OKLAHOMA CITY — Former Oklahoma senator David Boren, who became one of the nation’s youngest governors in the 1970s at age 33 and later helped shape national intelligence as a senator, has died. He was 83.

The University of Oklahoma released a statement after former Oklahoma Governor, U.S. Senator and OU President David Boren died at 83. "For more than five decades, he devoted himself to our state, nation,

David Boren’s influence on Oklahoma politics remains evident in the policies and reforms he championed, which continue to shape the state today.