Patrick F. Kennedy
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| Under Secretary of State for Management | |
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In office November 15, 2007 – January 26, 2017 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Henrietta Fore |
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In office September 1, 1996 – August 20, 1997 Acting |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Richard Moose |
| Succeeded by | Bonnie Cohen |
| United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform | |
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In office September 2001 – May 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Donald Hayes |
| Succeeded by | Mark Wallace |
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Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Acting |
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In office January 31, 1998 – August 11, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Eric Boswell |
| Succeeded by | David Carpenter |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Administration | |
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In office May 20, 1993 – July 13, 2001 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Arthur Fort |
| Succeeded by | William Eaton |
| Personal details | |
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Patrick Francis Kennedy June 22, 1949 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Elizabeth Swope |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
Patrick Francis Kennedy (born June 22, 1949) is a former career Foreign Service Officer who served as the U.S. State Department's Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation. He has been Deputy Director for Management at the cabinet level Office of the Director of National Intelligence; he returned to the Department of State on May 7, 2007. Kennedy was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform and previously served as Chief of Staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration for the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2001.
Kennedy holds a B.S.F.S. degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.
In 2007, Patrick F. Kennedy chaired an investigation into the behavior of Blackwater Worldwide, following the Nisour Square shooting.
During the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy ordered that State Department employees in Europe be barred from attending Senator Barack Obama's speech in Berlin on July 24, 2008, to ensure they displayed political neutrality. Kennedy labeled Obama's visit as a partisan political activity.
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