John c whitehead biography
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John C. Whitehead has a long and credited career in business and public service. He retired from Goldman-Sachs in 1984 as Co-Chairman and Senior Partner, after more than 35 years with the firm. He also served in the U.S. Government, as Deputy Secretary of State from 1985-89. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the United Nations Association, the International Rescue Committee, the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts, International House, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard Board of Overseers, Haverford College, and the Asia Society. He is also now a Director of the Nature Conservancy, Lincoln Center Theater, the East-West Institute, and the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, and a former Director of Rockefeller University, the J. Paul Getty Trust, Outward Bound, and the National Humanities Center. In Washington, Mr. Whitehead is Chairman Emeritus of the Brookings Institution and the Trustees Council of the National Gallery of Art. In late 2001, he was appointed to chair the Board of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
BornApril 2, 1922
DiedFebruary 7, 2015(92)
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John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1922 and died in New York in 2015.
He graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy, during World War II.
Mr. Whitehead received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard in 1947 and began at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He became Partner in 1956, and Senior Partner in 1976.
In 1985, Mr. Whitehead was asked by President Reagan to become Deputy Secretary of State. He was sworn into office in July 1985, and served until January 1989.
He is the former Chairman of such diverse organizations as The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Harvard Board of Overseers, the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations Association, Haverford College, The Asia Society, the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. He is Chairman of the Boy Scouts of America/GNY.
In late 2001, he was appointed as Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp, the organization responsible for the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan. He served in that position until May 2006. He was also the Founding Chairman of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center.
John C. Whitehead passed away in New York on 7 February 2015.
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John C. Whitehead
American civil servant
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