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Paul Wolfowitz

American politician and diplomat (born 1943)

Paul Wolfowitz

Official portrait, 2001

In office
June 1, 2005 – June 30, 2007
Preceded byJames Wolfensohn
Succeeded byRobert Zoellick
In office
March 2, 2001 – June 1, 2005
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
SecretaryDonald Rumsfeld
Preceded byRudy de Leon
Succeeded byGordon England
In office
1994–2001
Preceded byGeorge R. Packard
Succeeded byJessica Einhorn
In office
May 15, 1989 – January 19, 1993
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byFred Iklé
Succeeded byFrank G. Wisner
In office
April 11, 1986 – May 12, 1989
PresidentRonald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Preceded byJohn H. Holdridge
Succeeded byJohn Cameron Monjo
In office
December 22, 1982 – March 12, 1986
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byJohn H. Holdridge
Succeeded byGaston J. Sigur Jr.
In office
February 13, 1981 – December 22, 1982
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byAnthony Lake
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Jacob Wolfowitz

American statistician (born 1910)

Jacob Wolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American Jewishstatistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz.

Early life and education

Wolfowitz was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Helen (Pearlman) and Samuel Wolfowitz.[1] He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1920. He received a bachelor of science in 1931 from the City College of New York.

Career

In the mid-1930s, Wolfowitz began his career as a high school mathematics teacher and continued teaching until 1942 when he received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from New York University. While a part-time graduate student, Wolfowitz met Abraham Wald, with whom he collaborated in numerous joint papers in the field of mathematical statistics. This collaboration continued until Wald's death in an airplane crash in 1950. In 1951, Wolfowitz became a professor of mathematics at

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Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

On February 5, 2001, President Bush announced his intention to nominate Dr. Paul Wolfowitz to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 28th and sworn in March 2, 2001 as the 28th Deputy Secretary of Defense. This is Dr. Wolfowitz's third tour of duty in the Pentagon.

For the last seven years, Dr. Wolfowitz has served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. SAIS is widely regarded as one of the world's leading graduate schools of international relations with 750 students, studying on campuses in Washington, D.C.; Nanjing, China; and Bologna, Italy. As Dean, he led a successful capital campaign that raised more than $75 million and doubled the school's endowment. Also under his leadership, the curriculum and facilities were modernized and new faculty and programs were added to shift the school's focus from the Cold War to the era of globalization.

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