Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger State of Residency: Florida Appointment: Dec 8, 1992 Entry on Duty: Dec 8, 1992 Termination of Appointment: Jan 19, 1993 Presidency: Bush Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. Served as acting Secretary of State, Aug 23-Dec 8, 1992

As Secretary of State

• 1st Foreign Service Officer to hold this post

• Came out of retirement in 1989 to work for the U.S. Government and became a Secretary of State in 1992 after James Baker resigned to campaign for a George Bush.

• Dealt with problems in Somalia

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Born: August 1, 1930
Died:
Married: (divorced); Marlene Ann Heinemann
Education: University of Wisconsin
Occupation: Political official

Government Positions

• 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Army 1952-1954

• Entered Foreign Service in the economic section of the embassy in Honduras in 1957

• Political Analyst of Cuba in the Bureau of Intelligence & Research 1961

• Assigned to the economic section of the embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

• Led U.S. effort to provide medical and other assistance, after a severe earthquake in Macedonia, Yugoslavia 1963

• He was assigned to D.C. first to the Secretariet staff dealing with European affairs, than as a special assistant to Dean Acheson, advisor to the President on Franco-NATO issues 1965

• Member of the National Security Council staff 1966

• In 1969 he bacame an executive assistant to Kissinger at the White House

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 1971

• Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs 1973

• Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management 1975

• Ambassador to Yugoslavia in 1977

• Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs 1981

• Appointed Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 1982

• Retired from the Department of State in 1984 after serving 27 years as a Foreign Service Officer

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