Lake, Anthony

Biographical Note

• 1939, April 2: Born, New York, N.Y.
• 1961: A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1962: Married Antonia Plehn
• 1962 - 1970 : Foreign service officer, United States Department of State
• 1963: Vice consul, Saigon, Vietnam
• 1964: Staff assistant to the United States ambassador, Saigon, Vietnam
• 1964 - 1965 : Vice consul, Hue, Vietnam
• 1965 - 1967 : Staff assistant to deputy assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs, Department of State, and staff assistant to the under secretary of state
• 1969: M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
• 1969 - 1970 : Special assistant to the assistant to the president for national security affairs
• 1970: Resigned from foreign service in protest of United States invasion of Cambodia
• 1971 - 1972 : Foreign policy advisor, Muskie Election Committee
• 1974: Ph.D., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
• 1976 - 1977 : Head, Department of State transition for President Jimmy Carter
• 1977 - 1981 : Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• 1981 - 1992 : Five College Professor in International Relations, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., and Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
• 1991 - 1992 : Senior foreign policy advisor, Bill Clinton campaign
• 1993 - 1997 : Assistant to the president for national security affairs
• 1996, Dec.: Nominated to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1997, Mar.: Withdrew nomination to head the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1997 - : Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• 1999: Special envoy, Ethopia-Eritrea border conflict

From the guide to the Anthony Lake Papers, 1916-2003, (bulk 1963-1997), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)