[4] After a period as an economics student at Oxford University in the UK, he returned to the US and began work with the Honeywell Regulator Company that dealt in thermostat technology.
[4] Newman ran as a Republican on an antiwar platform in the 1966 United States House of Representatives elections, standing in California's 14th congressional district.
[7] He stood first in the special election held on 7 June 1966 following the death of Republican Representative John F. Baldwin, Jr., coming second to Democratic candidate Jerome R.
He resigned his position at the University of Rhode Island to take up a Presidential Fellowship at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
This requires higher education to do a better job of drawing people from all segments of society into those programs that lead to positions of leadership in the life of the country.
[4][16] At the time of its founding, the Futures Project was based at Brown University's Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
[11] Newman was appointed the Julius and Rosa Sachs Lecturer for the 1999–2000 academic year by Teachers College, Columbia University, where he was a Visiting Professor.
[20] In March 1977, Newman was made a "High Officer" of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, with the award being presented by the Portuguese Secretary of State for Emigration.
[15] The then-President of the University of Rhode Island, Robert L. Carothers, paid tribute to Newman, calling him "one of the great thinkers in higher education".