Warren Christopher

Also known as Warren Minor Christopher

U.S. Secretary of State (1925-2011)

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22nd annual Bernard Brodie Lecture on the conditions of peace delivered by former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, January 23, 2002
Preventive diplomacy and preventive defense in South Asia
American hostages in Iran
National War Powers Commission report
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Country: US
Active from: 1983-11-17

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Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 79,996x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

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Warren Minor Christopher (October 27, 1925 – March 18, 2011) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, and United States Navy officer who served as the 63rd United States secretary of state from 1993 to 1997.

Born in Scranton, North Dakota, Christopher clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas after graduating from Stanford Law School. He became a partner in the firm of O'Melveny & Myers and served as Deputy Attorney General from 1967 to 1969 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as Deputy Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, holding that position from 1977 to 1981. In 1991, he chaired the Christopher Commission, which investigated the Los Angeles Police Department in the wake of the Rodney King incident.