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Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; December 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.She was known for the "Kirkpatrick Doctrine", which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington's aims—believing they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies." She put this doctrine into practice most clearly in Central America, by supporting the "Contras" in Nicaragua, and the military juntas in Guatemala and El Salvador, all of which perpetrated massive human rights violations while countering a perceived communist threat.Kirkpatrick served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Washington 1962-1967; Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University 1967-1973, Professor 1973-2006, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Professor 1978-1980, 1986-2002; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 1978-2006; US Ambassador to UN 1981-1985.
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Graduated from Mt. Vernon Township High School, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, in 1944.
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 1981-1985. She was the first woman to ever hold this post.