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Lawrence Eagleburger

American statesman and diplomat (1930–2011)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
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Source-derived summary

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger was an American statesman and career diplomat who served briefly as the secretary of state under President George H. W. Bush from December 1992 to January 1993, one of the shortest terms in modern history. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as deputy secretary of state to James Baker under George H. W. Bush. Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service officer to have served as secretary of state. He was also deputy assistant secretary of defense from January to May 1973. As a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service, he attained the rank of career ambassador on April 12, 1984.

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“Lawrence Eagleburger” enters the record as american statesman and diplomat (1930–2011). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lawrence, Eagleburger and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1993, 1973, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lawrence, Eagleburger and American.
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“Lawrence Eagleburger” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lawrence, Eagleburger and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1993, 1973 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lawrence Eagleburger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.