biography
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| US Republican politician, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Princeton University (AB 1954), then served in the US Navy. He served three terms in the House of Representives (1962–9), then joined the Nixon administration as an assistant to the president (1969–72). He was chief-of-staff under Gerald Ford (1974–5), who also appointed him defence secretary (1975–7). He then became president and chief executive officer for the pharmaceutical firm G D Searle & Co (1977–85), held posts in various business corporations, and for a time was Ronald Reagan's special ambassador to the Middle East (1983–4). He was appointed defence secretary by George W Bush in 2001. |
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