1. John Richard Kroger was born on 1966 and is an American lawyer who served as the president of Reed College.
23 Facts About John Kroger
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John Kroger served as Attorney General for the US state of Oregon from 2009 to 2012.
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John Kroger resigned as Attorney General effective June 29,2012.
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John Kroger was born in 1966 in Ohio, growing up in Indiana and then Texas.
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John Kroger served in a United States Marine Corps Recon Battalion in the United States Marine Corps after having joined in 1983 at the age of 17.
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Shortly thereafter John Kroger volunteered to go to Lebanon, but in the aftermath of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing attack, President Ronald Reagan withdrew US forces before John Kroger's unit was sent in.
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John Kroger left the Marines in 1986, entered Yale College and studied philosophy, graduating in 1990 after winning the prestigious Truman Scholarship for public service leadership.
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John Kroger clerked for a year for a federal appellate judge before joining the United States Attorney's office in Brooklyn, New York as a federal prosecutor.
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John Kroger handled numerous drug trafficking cases, including a conviction against drug kingpin Juan "La Puma" Rodriguez, for shipping 10 tons worth of cocaine across the United States each year for more than a decade.
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John Kroger handled white collar crime cases such as government corruption cases, and tax evasion cases.
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In 2000, John Kroger had an eight-week period blocked out for an upcoming drug kingpin trial, but when the trial schedule was moved back, John Kroger took a three-month vacation.
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John Kroger bought a $350 Trek bicycle and started cycling west across the country, from New York to Oregon.
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John Kroger was given the job and relocated to Portland, where he currently resides.
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Once at the college, John Kroger taught only one semester of criminal procedure before he was asked to join the Justice Department's Enron Task Force and help investigate what at the time was the biggest corporate bankruptcy in US history.
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John Kroger married Michele Toppe, the interim dean of students at Portland State University on August 1,2009.
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On September 20,2007, John Kroger announced his candidacy for Oregon Attorney General.
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John Kroger defeated Greg Macpherson for the Democratic nomination in the May 20,2008 primary election, and was victorious in the Republican primary as a write-in.
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John Kroger was sworn into office on January 5,2009, becoming the 16th Attorney General for the state.
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In October 2011, John Kroger announced he would not seek another term, citing an unspecified illness.
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In February 2018, John Kroger announced he will be stepping down as Reed College president in the summer of 2018.
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On June 30,2018, John Kroger was replaced at Reed College by vice president Hugh Porter, serving as acting president until a permanent replacement was found.
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In October 2019, John Kroger became the inaugural Chief Learning Officer for the US Navy, overseeing the US Naval Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, the Naval War College, the Marine Corps University, and a soon to be established Naval Community College.
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John Kroger left his job with the Navy to join the Aspen Institute in July 2020.