- John C. Whitehead
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name = John C. Whitehead
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office =U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
term_start = 1985
term_end = 1989
president =Ronald Reagan
predecessor =Kenneth W. Dam
successor =Lawrence S. Eagleburger
birth_date = birth date and age|1922|4|2
birth_place =Evanston, Illinois
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nationality = flag|United States
party = Republican Party
spouse =Nancy Dickerson
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alma_mater =Haverford College
occupation = Investment banker
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footnotes =John Cunningham Whitehead (born
April 2 1922 ), is currently the chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation), and former chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation until he resigned in May of 2006. [ [http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/whitehead_resigns_as_lmdc_17506.aspx "Whitehead Resigns as LMDC Chairman"] @ LMDC - Lower Manhattan.info - May 11, 2006]Born in
Evanston, Illinois his family moved toMontclair, New Jersey when he was two years old. [ [http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/pdf/johnwhitehead.pdf "John Whitehead"] interview @Harvard Business School (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)]Whitehead graduated from
Haverford College in 1943 and served in theU.S. Navy duringWorld War II , where he commanded one of the landing crafts atOmaha Beach , in theD-Day landing invasion ofNormandy . [http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465050549 "A Life In Leadership"] @ Basic Books] [ [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121503561463124251.html?mod=opinion_journal_main_stories"A Day at the Beach"] @ OpinionJournal - July 4, 2008]Later he joined the prestigious New York investment bank of
Goldman Sachs , rising to become chairman over a total period at the firm of 38 years; retiring in 1984 as Co-Chairman and Senior Partner.He served as
United States Deputy Secretary of State inRonald Reagan 's administration from 1985 to 1989 underGeorge Shultz , and was awarded thePresidential Citizens Medal by President Reagan. In 1996, he was the campaign chairman for Michael Benjamin who ran for a seat inNew York's 8th congressional district .He is former Chairman of the Board of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York , theUnited Nations Association , and a former Chairman of TheAndrew W. Mellon Foundation and theHarvard Board of Overseers . He is a former director of theNew York Stock Exchange and Chairman Emeritus of TheBrookings Institution .He has a long association with the
Rockefeller family , having held positions at various times with family-created institutions such asRockefeller University , theAsia Society (where he is Chaiman Emeritus and Honorary Life Trustee), theLincoln Center Theater and the WTC Memorial Foundation. In these organisations, and previously when he was for a time on the family's powerful Trust Committee, overseeing the family fortune and investments of theRockefeller Group , the real estate firm that previously owned and managedRockefeller Center , he became closely associated withDavid Rockefeller .As an alumnus of
Haverford College inPennsylvania , he has had the campus center and the chair of the philosophy department named after him. TheJohn C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations atSeton Hall University is also named after him. He received an honoraryLL.D. fromBates College in 2004.He also serves on the board of the
International Rescue Committee , an internationalhuman rights organization. In 1987, he was awarded the IRC's Freedom Award, along withElie Weisel . [ [http://www.theirc.org/about/freedomaward.html The IRC Freedom Award] ] Other recipients of the award have includedWinston Churchill ,Hubert Humphrey ,George H.W. Bush ,Bill Clinton ,John McCain ,Lech Wałęsa ,Hamid Karzai ,Madeleine Albright , andVáclav Havel . Whitehead is an Eagle Scout and recipient of theDistinguished Eagle Scout Award . He has been Chairman of theFinancial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) since July, 2005. He is also an Advisory Board member for thePartnership for a Secure America , a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.Whitehead was married to the late pioneering television newswoman,
Nancy Dickerson until her death; her son,John Dickerson , the writer, is one of his stepchildren. In 2003, Mr. Whitehead dedicated the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Community Service Center for Homeless Youth in Southeast Washington, D.C. with a generous gift toCovenant House .In 2005, Whitehead published a memoir "A Life In Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero."
In 2006, Whitehead was one of the most notable Republican donors to the campaign of Joseph Lieberman in his independent re-election campaign for the U.S. Senate. [cite news|last=Lightman|first=David|title=GOP Gave Joe A Boost|publisher=Hartford Courant|year=2007|date=
March 19 ,2007 |url=http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-joemoney0319.artmar19,0,1424810.story?coll=hc-headlines-home|accessdate=2007-03-19]Notes
External links
* [http://www.gs.com/our_firm/our_culture/social_responsibility/gs_foundation/articles/board_of_trustees_article_030616194436.html Goldman Sachs biography]
* [http://www.clarke.edu/news/NDWMedallion/whitehead.htm Clarke College: Brief Biography]
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