John Danforth

John Danforth
John Danforth ; (politician, priest);
Born	John Claggett Danforth; 1936-09-05; St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University, Yale Law School, Yale Divinity School
Religion	Episcopalian
Spouse	Sally Dobson Danforth
Member of	Refugees International/Board
Party	Republican
	United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
	July 1, 2004 - January 20, 2005
Preceded by	John Negroponte
Succeeded by	Anne W. Patterson
	United States Senator from Missouri
In office
	December 27, 1976 - January 3, 1995
Succeeded by	John Ashcroft
	Attorney General of Missouri
In office
	January 13, 1969 - December 27, 1976

Career

In 1999, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Danforth to lead an investigation into the FBI's role in the 1993 Waco Siege. Danforth appointed Attorney Edward L. Dowd as his deputy special counsel for Waco.

Danforth spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism on "Terrorism Versus Democracy". He was a mentor of Le Cercle visitor, Paul Dietrich.^[1]

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism	2 July 1979	5 July 1979	Israel Jerusalem	The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".

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