John C. Whitehead
John Cunningham Whitehead ( born April 2, 1922 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American entrepreneur and business manager, who was Deputy Secretary of State in the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1989.
Life
After attending the High School of Montclair (New Jersey ) studied Whitehead, who was distinguished themselves in the Boy Scouts of America committed and 1937 as Eagle Scout with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, economics at Haverford College and graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA Economics) from. After he had done his military service in the U.S. Navy in port, he completed a postgraduate degree in business administration at the Harvard Business School and graduated in 1947 a Master of Business Administration ( MBA).
After graduating, he began his professional career in 1947 in the private sector in the investment and securities trading company Goldman Sachs, where he was first in 1956 and 1976 Partner Senior Partner. In addition, he was most recently with John L. Weinberg 1976-1984 Co - CEO of Goldman Sachs He was also temporarily a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, and Chairman of this committee at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1995 to 1999.
In 1985 he became deputy foreign minister (U.S. Deputy Secretary of State ) and held that post until the end of the tenure of Ronald Reagan in 1989. During this time, 1987, the Freedom Award by the International Rescue Committee, he was awarded.
Most recently, he was from 2001 to 2006 chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Whitehead was involved in addition to countless social, political, social and economic organizations and was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and the George C. Marshall Foundation, a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, Chairman of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Brookings Institution, the International Rescue Committee and the Nature Conservancy, and a member of the board of Harvard University.
He was also active in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bilderberg conference and the Council for National Policy.
To him, the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University was named in honor.