George Shultz, Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan had died. He was 100.
Born December 13, 1920 in New York City, Shultz attended Princeton University. Shultz served as a Marine officer during WWII, rising to the rank of Captain as an artilleryman. Following WWII, Shultz attended MIT where he graduated with a Ph.D. in industrial economics.
In 1954, he took a position on President Eisenhower’s council of economic advisors. He served as Labor Secretary, the first director of the OMB and finally as Treasury Secretary under Richard NIxon before leaving government service to work in the private sector.
In 1982 he accepted Ronald Reagan’s nomination as Secretary of State. He held that office from 1982 to 1989. During his tenure as Secretary of State, Shultz diffused tensions with China over Taiwan, helped broker an uneasy peace deal between Israel and Lebanon, negotiated the INF treaty with the Soviet Union, eventually overseeing the dissolution of the Great Bear.
He was married to Helena “Obie” O’Brien, an Army nurse he met during World War II, and they had five children together. Two years after her death, in 1997, he married Charlotte Maillard, San Francisco’s protocol chief. Shultz is survived by Maillard, his five children, 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.