Stu Eizenstat | |
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Special Advisor for Holocaust Issues | |
Assumed office December 18, 2013 |
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President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Position established |
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | |
In office July 16, 1999 – January 20, 2001 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | James Dobbins |
Succeeded by | Vernon Weaver |
White House Domestic Affairs Advisor | |
In office January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 |
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President | Jimmy Carter |
Preceded by | James Cannon |
Succeeded by | Ralph Bledsoe (1985) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
January 15, 1943
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.