John Kerry Biography
- Title:
- Former US Secretary of State
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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“I can’t take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.”
Interview in the Telegraph Herald, July 4, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
- Visiting Distinguished Statesman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- US Secretary of State, Feb. 1, 2013-Jan. 1, 2017
- US Senator (D-MA), Jan. 3, 1985–Feb. 1, 2013
- Chair, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Member, US Senate Finance Committee
- Member, US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation
- Member, US Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- Democratic Nominee, US President, 2004
- Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts, 1982-1984
- irst Assistant District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney of Middlesex County, 1977-1979
- Prosecutor, Office of the District Attorney of Middlesex County, 1976-1977
Passed the Massachusetts Bar, 1976 - Executive Director, Mass Action, Massachusetts, 1974
- Fundraiser, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), 1972-1973
- Founding Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), 1970
- Lieutenant, US Navy, 1970
- Lieutenant Junior grade, US Navy, 1968
- Inducted, Skull and Bones Society, 1967
- Education:
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- JD, Boston College Law School, 1976
- BA, Political Science, Yale University, 1966
- Other:
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