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William Howard Taft IV

Ronald Reagan Administration

**Full Bio Forthcoming**

 

February 3, 1984-April 22, 1989

 

B.A., Yale, 1966

Harvard Law School, 1969

Attorney Adviser to Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, 1969-1970

Executive Assistant to Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-1976

General Counsel, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1976-1977

General Counsel, Department of Defense, 1981-1984

Acting Secretary of Defense, January 1989-March 1989

U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, 1989-1992