Seymour Weiss

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Person.png Seymour Weiss  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(diplomat)
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BornMay 15, 1925
Chicago
DiedSeptember 23, 1992 (Age 67)
NationalityUS
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago
Member ofPIAB, Team B
A neoconservative, a hawk, and an anti-Soviet hard-liner.

Employment.png United States/Ambassador/the Bahamas

In office
September 11, 1974 - December 15, 1976
see also Castle Bank and Trust Company

Seymour Weiss was a United States diplomat and a high-ranking official at the United States Department of State. He was an adviser to Team B.

Biography

Seymour Weiss was born in Chicago in 1925. He was in the United States Navy during World War II, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. After the war, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, and then received a Master of International Affairs degree from the University of Chicago.

Weiss then spent five years working in the Office of Management and Budget and the United States Agency for International Development. Weiss then joined the United States Foreign Service.

From 1968 to 1969, Weiss headed the State Department's Office of Strategic Research and Intelligence. He spent 1972-73 as deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff.

In 1973, President of the United States Richard Nixon nominated Weiss as Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; he held this office from August 6, 1973 until January 17, 1974.

President Gerald Ford appointed Weiss United States Ambassador to the Bahamas in 1974, and Weiss held this post, his last, from September 11, 1974 until December 15, 1976.

In retirement, Weiss continued to act as an adviser on foreign policy and defense affairs. During the 1980 presidential election, he was a foreign policy advisor for Ronald Reagan, and during the Reagan administration, he would serve as an advisor to United States Secretaries of Defense Caspar Weinberger (1981–87) and Frank Carlucci, and under the administration of George H. W. Bush as an advisor to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Weiss was generally considered a neoconservative, a hawk, and an anti-Soviet hard-liner.

Weiss died of liver cancer at his home in Bethesda, Maryland on September 23, 1992.


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