36 Facts About Warren Christopher

Warren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician.

Warren Christopher served as Deputy Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, holding that position from 1977 to 1981.

Warren Christopher helped negotiate the Dayton Agreement, which ended the Bosnian War.

Warren Christopher left office in 1997, and was succeeded by Madeleine Albright.

Warren Christopher oversaw the Gore campaign's Florida recount effort in the aftermath of the disputed 2000 presidential election.

Warren Christopher served as a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Warren Minor Christopher was born in Scranton, North Dakota, the son of Catherine Anne and Ernest William Christopher, a bank manager.

Warren Christopher graduated from Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, and attended the University of Redlands, before transferring to the University of Southern California.

Warren Christopher was a member of the college fraternity Kappa Sigma Sigma.

Warren Christopher entered Stanford Law School in September 1946, where he founded and became the first editor of the new Stanford Law Review.

Warren Christopher became the first graduate of Stanford Law School to become a US Supreme Court law clerk when he clerked for Justice William O Douglas from October 1949 to September 1950.

In 1974, Warren Christopher served as the president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Warren Christopher was sworn in on February 26,1977, as the Deputy Secretary of State and served in that position until January 20,1981.

Warren Christopher spearheaded the Sino-American relations with the People's Republic of China, helped to win ratification of the Panama Canal treaties, and headed the first interagency group on human rights.

In 1981, Warren Christopher received the US Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.

In 1991, Warren Christopher served as chairman of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, which came to be known as the Warren Christopher Commission.

In 1992, Warren Christopher headed the vice presidential search for Governor Bill Clinton's presidential campaign and served as the Director of his presidential Transition.

Secretary Warren Christopher accepted Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's offer to host the signing ceremony.

The ceremony took place in Washington DC on 13 September 1993, with Mahmoud Abbas signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Peres signing for the State of Israel, Secretary Warren Christopher signing for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev signing for Russia, in the presence of President Clinton.

Warren Christopher was one of the main visionaries and proponent of an integrated Middle East.

Secretary Warren Christopher agreed with this view and believed that the US should use economic pressure to force China to improve its human rights record.

Warren Christopher eventually offered Hussein $200 million in military equipment and $700 million in debt forgiveness to sweeten the deal.

Warren Christopher sought to obtain a similar treaty between Rabin and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, but to no avail.

However, after Secretary Warren Christopher convinced President Clinton that the Vietnamese government was fully cooperating in these searches, the President announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on July 11,1995.

Warren Christopher was sent to supervise the contested Florida recount for Al Gore's campaign in the 2000 United States presidential election.

Warren Christopher was a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Board of Advisors.

Warren Christopher was an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.

Former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher served as Co-Chairs of the Miller Center's National War Powers Commission.

From 2003 until his death, Warren Christopher taught a small seminar course on international affairs as part of the Honors Program at UCLA.

Warren Christopher wrote In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era and Chances of a Lifetime.

Warren Christopher was a recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.

Warren Christopher served as an Honorary Co-Chair for the World Justice Project.

Warren Christopher died at his home in Los Angeles on March 18,2011, from kidney and bladder cancer.

Warren Christopher was survived by his wife and four children from two marriages.

Warren Christopher is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.

Warren Christopher was described as "the best public servant I ever knew" by President Jimmy Carter in his memoirs.