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Alexander Haig
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former U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Army general (1924-2010)
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Alexander Haig (1924–2010) was an American diplomat, politician, and businessperson who served as a general in the United States Army. A member of the Republican Party and a Catholic, he was born in Philadelphia and died in Baltimore of natural causes. Haig held several high-ranking positions, including United States Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff, Deputy National Security Advisor, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He participated in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Air Medal.
Haig received his education at the United States Military Academy, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Columbia University, and the University of Notre Dame. He resided in Philadelphia and had three children, one of whom is Brian Haig. He spoke English.
Note: The provided facts include conflicting birth and death dates (1853–1924) and works related to diet and uric acid, which appear to refer to a different individual or contain errors, as they contradict the primary biographical details of the U.S. Secretary of State. Additionally, music and quote data are included in the source material.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1853
- Died
- 1924
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Diet and food, considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, trainings and athletics
- The formation and excretion of uric acid considered with reference to gout and allied disease
- Health through diet
- Uric acid in the clinic
- Uric acid as a factor in the causation of disease
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,019x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,513x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,574x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,941x
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Quotes
- “Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.”
- “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. The Ettinger Report, 2005-05-11.”
- “That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.”
- “Let them march all they want as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
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Key facts
- President
- Ronald Reagan
- Deputy
- William P. Clark Jr. , Walter J. Stoessel Jr.
- Preceded by
- Edmund Muskie
- Succeeded by
- George Shultz
- Born
- Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. , ( 1924-12-02 ) 2 December 1924, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- 20 February 2010 (2010-02-20) (aged 85), Baltimore , Maryland , U.S.
- Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Patricia Fox ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. May 24, 1950</span>"}]]}'>1950 )
- Children
- 3, including Brian
- Relatives
- Frank Haig (brother)
- Education
- University of Notre Dame , United States Military Academy ( BS ), Columbia University ( MBA ), Georgetown University ( MA )
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch service
- United States Army
- Years of service
- 1947–1979
- Rank
- General
- Battles wars
- Korean War , Vietnam War
- Awards
- Distinguished Service Cross Defense Distinguished Service Medal (2) Army Distinguished Service Medal Navy Distinguished Service Medal Air Force Distinguished Service Medal Silver Star (2) Legion of Merit (3) Distinguished Flying Cross (3) Bronze Star (3) with "V" device Purple Heart Air Medal (27)
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (/heɪɡ/; 2 December 1924 – 20 February 2010) was an American politician who served as the 59th United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and previously as White House chief of staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as United States Deputy National Security Advisor under President Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he was a general in the U.S. Army prior to and in between these cabinet-level positions, serving first as the vice chief of staff of the Army and then as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In 1973, Haig became the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army's history.
Haig was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and served in the Korean War, during which he served as an aide to general Alonzo Patrick Fox and general Edward Almond. Afterward, he served as an aide to defense secretary Robert McNamara. During the Vietnam War, Haig commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. For his service, Haig received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Haig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.