Warren Christopher
Politician
Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton who helped broker the Bosnian peace accords and investigate the Rodney King beating. He has been criticized for his lack of action during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.
As Deputy Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter, he led the negotiations to release American hostages held by Iran.
Preferring a low key approach and direction behind the scenes, he was sometimes barely known to other diplomats - at one point telling a foreign delegate audience who he was before beginning his speech.
He was born in the prairie town of Scranton, North Dakota, the fourth of five chuldren.
He was blamed for a lot of the early foreign policy stumbles of the Bill Clinton administration, such as the "Black Hawk Down" botched rescue operation in Somalia.