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When did Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger join the Foreign Service?

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A career diplomat, he joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and held a series of embassy, State Dept., national security, and Defense Dept. posts before serving as ambassador (1977-81) to Yugoslavia and a State Dept. assistant secretary (1981-82) and under secretary (1982-84). He was deputy secretary of state (1989-92) and secretary of state (1992-93) under President George H. W. Bush, becoming the first Foreign Service officer to hold the latter post.

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