Eagleburger, Lawrence Sidney

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1930–, U.S. government official, b. Milwaukee. A career diplomat, he joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and held a series of embassy, State Dept., national security, and Defense Dept. posts before serving as ambassador (1977–81) to Yugoslavia and a State Dept. assistant secretary (1981–82) and under secretary (1982–84). He was deputy secretary of state (1989–92) and secretary of state (1992–93) under President George H. W. Bush, becoming the first Foreign Service officer to hold the latter post. Eagleburger also chaired an international commission that established (2002) procedures for Holocaust victims and their heirs seeking compensation for unsettled claims against German insurance companies, and was a member of the Iraq Study Group (2006).