John Van Hanford III was born on c 1954 and was United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from 2002 to 2009.
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John Hanford was appointed to the post in May 2002 by President George W Bush and served until 2009.
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John Hanford is from Salisbury, North Carolina and is a nephew of Elizabeth John Hanford Dole.
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John Hanford attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a John Motley Morehead Scholarship and earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics.
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John Hanford graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity.
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John Hanford served under Dr Timothy Keller, and lived with the Keller family.
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John Hanford then served for 14 years as an expert on international religious freedom issues, while working on the staff of Senator Richard Lugar.
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In 1998, John Hanford was the chief architect of the bipartisan Congressional effort that created the US Government's permanent structures for advancing religious freedom around the world.
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John Hanford led a team of Congressional offices in authoring the International Religious Freedom Act and, with the bill's lead sponsors, guided the Act through the legislative process to a unanimous vote in both houses of Congress.
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Ambassador John Hanford was one of only four appointees at the Assistant Secretary level or above to serve in his position at the State Department through both terms of the Bush Administration.
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Ambassador John Hanford negotiated and signed an historic Binding Agreement with the Government of Vietnam, whereby Vietnam agreed to address critical violations of religious freedom.