1 | Name: | The Honorable George P. Shultz | |
Institution: | Hoover Institution, Stanford University | ||
Year Elected: | 1992 | ||
Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
Residency: | Resident | ||
Living? : | Deceased | ||
Birth Date: | 1920 | ||
Death Date: | February 6, 2021 | ||
George P. Shultz served as the sixtieth United States Secretary of State from 1982-89, after which time he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics (now Emeritus) at the Graduate School of Business and the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He had previously taught at Stanford from 1974-82. Dr. Shultz's academic career also brought him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946-57) and the University of Chicago (1957-68). His other governmental positions include U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969-70), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972-74) and chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-82). From 1974-82 he worked in the private sector as president and director of the Bechtel Group. Dr. Shultz's publications include Workers and Wages in the Urban Labor Market (1970); (with Kenneth Dam) Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines (1978); the best-selling memoir Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993); and Putting Our House Back in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform (2007). He was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1989, and he has also received the Seoul Peace Prize (1992), the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service (2001) and the Reagan Distinguished American Award (2002). He is the recipient of the Elliot Richardson Prize for Excellence and Integrity in Public Service, The James H. Doolittle Award, and the John Witherspoon Medal for Distinguished Statesmanship. The George Shultz National Foreign Service Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated in his honor in 2002. Dr. Shultz was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2005. He holds a Ph.D. degree in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949). He died on February 6, 2021. |