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Hon. Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior
to becoming director of the Woodrow Wilson
Center in 1999, Hamilton served for 34 years
in Congress representing Indiana's Ninth District.
During his tenure, he served as chairman and
ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs (now the Committee on International
Relations), chaired the Subcommittee on Europe
and the Middle East from the early 1970s until
1993, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert
Arms Transactions with Iran. Hamilton also
served as chair of the Joint Economic Committee,
working to promote long-term economic growth and development. As chairman
of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and a member
of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee, he was a primary
draftsman of several House ethics reforms. Since leaving the House,
Mr. Hamilton has served as a commissioner on the influential United
States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (the Hart-Rudman
Commission), and was co-chair with former Senator Howard Baker of the
Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at
Los Alamos. Before his election to Congress, he practiced law in Chicago
and Columbus, Indiana.
Photo Credit: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/Lee Hamilton
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