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Stuart Eizenstat

Stu Eizenstat
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Special Advisor for Holocaust Issues
Assumed office
December 18, 2013
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Position established
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
In office
July 16, 1999 – January 20, 2001
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Larry Summers
Succeeded by Kenneth Dam
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
In office
June 6, 1997 – July 16, 1999
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Joan Spero
Succeeded by Alan Larson
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
In office
April 1996 – June 6, 1997
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Timothy Hauser (Acting)
Succeeded by David Aaron
United States Ambassador to the European Union
In office
August 2, 1993 – April 1996
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by James Dobbins
Succeeded by Vernon Weaver
White House Domestic Affairs Advisor
In office
January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981
President Jimmy Carter
Preceded by James Cannon
Succeeded by Ralph Bledsoe (1985)
Personal details
Born (1943-01-15) January 15, 1943 (age 74)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Frances Eizenstat
Education University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA)
Harvard University (JD)

Stuart E. "Stu" Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. He currently serves as a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling and as a senior strategist at APCO Worldwide.

Stuart E. Eizenstat was born on January 15, 1943. He earned an A.B., cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a brother of the Alpha Pi Chapter of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1967.

He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Newell Edenfield of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. In 1983, he wrote for Quarante magazine an article entitled, "The Quiet Revolution." He was the first to describe the "feminization of poverty." He was President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1999–2001), Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997–1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration (ITA) from 1996 to 1997.


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