William Banks Bader (September 8, 1931 – March 16, 2016)[1][2] was an American diplomat who served as the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs from 1999 to 2001.
William B. Bader | |
|---|---|
| 9th Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs | |
| In office November 18, 1999 – January 20, 2001 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Alice Stone Ilchman |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Harrison |
| Personal details | |
| Born | William Banks Bader September 8, 1931 Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | March 16, 2016 (aged 84) |
| Spouse | Gretta Bader |
| Children | 4, including Diedrich |
| Relatives | Edward L. Bader (grandfather) |
| Education | Pomona College (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Navy/Reserves |
| Years of service | 1955–1958 |
| Rank |  Captain |
Early life and education
editBader's paternal grandfather was Edward L. Bader, who was mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey and is of German and Scottish heritage.[3][4] He was educated at Pomona College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1953. He then studied as a Fulbright scholar at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Vienna. During his time in Munich, Bader married his Pomona College classmate, sculptor Gretta Lange; they had four children, one of whom is actor Diedrich Bader. He served in the United States Navy from 1955 to 1958 on active duty and later transferred to the Reserves before retiring with the rank of captain. He then studied German history at Princeton University under Gordon A. Craig, earning a Master of Arts in 1960 and a PhD in 1964.
Career
editBader joined the United States Foreign Service in 1965, and was posted to the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in Washington, D.C. In 1966, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-AR) invited Bader to join the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations where he was a senior staff member overseeing international security and arms control from 1966 to 1969. During this time, he also worked for the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, chaired by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-MO).
In the early 1970s, Bader worked for the Ford Foundation in Paris. He became a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1974.
Bader returned to government in 1976 when he was appointed deputy under secretary of defense for policy. He returned to the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1979 as Staff Director at a time when the committee was considering the Camp David Accords, the Taiwan Relations Act, and SALT II.
In 1981, Bader became Vice President and Senior Officer of the Washington, D.C. office of SRI International. He moved to California in 1988 to become Vice President of SRI International's policy division.[5] He became president of the Eurasia Foundation in 1992. He spent 1996–97 as a visiting fellow at the World Bank Group.
In 1999, President of the United States Bill Clinton nominated Bader to be assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs and, after Senate confirmation, Bader held the office from November 18, 1999 until January 20, 2001.[1]
Bader and his wife had four children, the youngest being actor Diedrich Bader. The three elder children are academics working in the fields of linguistics, political science, and medieval history.[6][7]
Selected publications
edit- "Oesterreich in Potsdam" in Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Aussenpolitik, Vol. II, No. 4, June 1962
- "The United States and the 'German Problem'" in Foreign Affairs, 1965
- Austria Between East and West: 1945–1955, Stanford University Press, 1966
- The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, Pegasus, 1968
- "The Congress and National Security" in Naval War College Review, 1970
- "The Proliferation of Conventional Weapons" in The Future of the International Legal Order, Vol. III, ed. C.E. Black and Richard Falk, 1971
- "Congress and the Making of the U.S. Security Policies," Adelphi Paper No. 173, IISS, London, England, 1982
- "Austria, The United States, and the Path to Neutrality" in The Austrian Solution, ed. Robert A. Bauer, 1982
- "Western Europe" in TRANSACTION/SOCIETY, Vol. 22, No. 4, May/June 1985
- "Western Europe: From Roosevelt to Reagan" in The President, the Congress and Foreign Policy: A Joint Policy Project of the Association of Former Members of Congress and the Atlantic Council of the United States, Lanham, New York; London, England; University Press of New York, 1986
- The Taiwan Relations Act: A Decade of Implementation, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, ed. William Bader and Jeffrey Bergner, 1989
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Department History – People – William B. Bader". United States Department of State Office of the Historian. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index, Vols 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ Schudel, Matt (March 19, 2016). "William B. Bader, official who helped uncover CIA, Defense abuses, dies at 84". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
- ^ "Teacher From Hawaii Is Miss America". ProQuest 409050343.
- ^ "Opening Statement of Dr. William B. Bader of New Jersey at his Hearing for Nomination as Associate Director of the U.S. Information Agency Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee". University of Illinois at Chicago. October 7, 1998. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ "Diedrich Bader's family proud he clowns around". The Washington Times. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
- ^ Matt Schudel (March 19, 2016). "William B. Bader, official who helped uncover CIA, Defense abuses, dies at 84". The Washington Post.
Further reading
edit- "The 60th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Austria: 1950 – 2010: Seeing the World as Others See It", Bridges: The OST's Publication on S&T Policy, vol. 26, July 2010.