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Richard F. Celeste

Dick Celeste
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United States Ambassador to India
In office
November 28, 1997 – April 25, 2001
President Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded by Frank G. Wisner
Succeeded by Robert Blackwill
64th Governor of Ohio
In office
January 10, 1983 – January 14, 1991
Lieutenant Myrl Shoemaker
Paul Leonard
Preceded by Jim Rhodes
Succeeded by George Voinovich
Director of the Peace Corps
In office
April 27, 1979 – January 20, 1981
President Jimmy Carter
Preceded by Carolyn R. Payton
Succeeded by Loret Ruppe
55th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office
January 13, 1975 – January 8, 1979
Governor Jim Rhodes
Preceded by John Brown
Succeeded by George Voinovich
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 5th district
In office
January 3, 1971 – December 31, 1974
Preceded by Mark C. Schinnerer
Succeeded by Francine Panehal
Personal details
Born Richard Frank Celeste
(1937-11-11) November 11, 1937 (age 79)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Dagmar Braun
Jacqueline Lundquist
Children 7
Education Yale University (BA)
Exeter College, Oxford

Richard Frank "Dick" Celeste (born November 11, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat from Ohio, and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the 64th Governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991.

Celeste was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, graduating from Lakewood High School in 1955. In 1959 he was graduated magna cum laude from Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut), where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Celeste then received a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Exeter College at Oxford University (Oxford, England), where he is an Honorary Fellow. There he met Dagmar Ingrid Braun, whom he married in Austria in 1962. After returning to the United States, Celeste served as staff liaison office in the Peace Corps and as special assistant to Chester Bowles.

Celeste was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives from Cuyahoga County in 1970. His Ohio House District included western Cleveland and Lakewood, where his father Frank, had once served as mayor. He was subsequently elected the 55th Lieutenant Governor in 1974 (defeating Republican John W. Brown, serving under the Republican James A. Rhodes—at the time, Ohio's lieutenant governor was elected separately from the governor, so the victors could be of different parties). In 1978, Celeste ran for governor, but lost to incumbent Rhodes. President Carter appointed Celeste Director of the Peace Corps from 1979 to 1981, where he was responsible for programs in 53 countries.


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