Allen Weinstein

Allen Weinstein
Allen Weinstein, Ninth Archivist of the United States
Born	(1937-09-01)September 1, 1937 New York, New York
Died	June 18, 2015(2015-06-18) (aged 77) Gaithersburg, Maryland
Occupation	Senior Strategist for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Professor and former Archivist of the United States
Spouse(s)	Diane Gilbert Sypolt (divorced), Adrienne Dominguez
Children	David Weinstein, Andrew Weinstein, Alex Content (stepson)
Parent(s)	Samuel Weinstein, Sarah Popkov
Awards	United Nations Peace Medal (1986), Council of Europe's Silver Medal (1990, 1996)

Allen Weinstein (September 1, 1937 – June 18, 2015) was an American historian, educator, and federal official who served in several different offices. He was, under the Reagan administration, cofounder of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983. He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16, 2005 until his resignation on December 19, 2008. After his resignation, he returned to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems as the election organization's senior strategist and to the University of Maryland as a history professor.

The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Weinstein was born in New York City in 1937, the youngest of three children. His parents owned several delis in the Bronx and Queens. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and City College of New York, then received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.

He taught at Smith College from 1966 to 1981. Briefly, in 1981, he served on the editorial staff for The Washington Post and was an Executive editor of The Washington Quarterly from 1981 to 1983. In 1981, he moved to Georgetown University, where he was a professor until 1984. In 1982, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies, and in 1983 he served on the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO-sponsored International Program for the Development of Communication. He was a Professor of History at Boston University from 1985 to 1989. In 2009, after he resigned from the position of Archivist of the United States, he taught history at the University of Maryland.