George Pratt Shultz

George Pratt Shultz served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps during World War II in the Pacific Theater before earning a doctorate in industrial economics from MIT. He taught at MIT and the University of Chicago, serving as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is one of only two people in American history to hold four different federal cabinet positions: Secretary of Labor, Director of OMB, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State.

As Reagan's Secretary of State for over six turbulent years, Shultz pursued patient, hard-nosed diplomacy with the Soviet Union, working with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to defuse nuclear tensions. His efforts led to the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1987, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear missiles. In retirement at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, he was a vocal advocate for nuclear non-proliferation and clean energy.