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| Name | Cyrus Vance |
|---|---|
| Order | 57th United States Secretary of State |
| Term start | January 20, 1977 |
| Term end | April 28, 1980 |
| Deputy | Warren Christopher |
| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Predecessor | Henry Kissinger |
| Successor | Edmund Muskie |
| Order2 | United States Secretary of the Army |
| Term start2 | July 5, 1962 |
| Term end2 | January 21, 1964 |
| President2 | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Secretary2 | Robert S. McNamara |
| Predecessor2 | Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. |
| Successor2 | Stephen Ailes |
| Order3 | United States Deputy Secretary of Defense |
| Term start3 | 1964 |
| Term end3 | 1967 |
| President3 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Secretary3 | Robert S. McNamara |
| Predecessor3 | Roswell Gilpatric |
| Successor3 | Paul H. Nitze |
| Birth date | |
| Birth place | Clarksburg, West Virginia |
| Death date | January 12, 2002 |
| Death place | New York City |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Grace Sloane |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Signature | Cyrus Vance Signature.svg |
| Branch | United States Navy |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Serviceyears | 1942 - 1946 |
| Unit | USS Hale |
As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April 1980, Vance resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran. He was succeeded by Edmund Muskie.
Vance was the cousin (and adoptive son) of 1924 Democratic Presidential Candidate and noted lawyer John W. Davis. He was the father of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.
As Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Lyndon Johnson, he first supported the Vietnam War but by the late 1960s changed his views and resigned from office advising the president to pull out of South Vietnam. In 1968 he served as a delegate to peace talks in Paris. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. He was a professor at Georgetown University afterwards.
on the White House lawn in March of 1977]] As Secretary of State in the Jimmy Carter administration, Vance pushed for negotiations and economic ties with the Soviet Union, and clashed frequently with the more hawkish National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Vance tried to advance arms limitations by working on the SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union, which he saw as the central diplomatic issue of the time. He was heavily instrumental in Carter's decision to return the Canal Zone to Panama, and in the Camp David Accords agreement between Israel and Egypt.
After the Camp David Accords, Vance's influence in the administration began to wane as Brzezinski's rose. His role in talks with People's Republic of China was marginalized, and his advice for a response to the Shah of Iran's collapsing regime was ignored. Shortly thereafter, when 53 American hostages were held in Iran, he worked actively in negotiations but to no avail. Finally, when Carter ordered a secret military rescue - Operation Eagle Claw - Vance resigned in opposition after the rescue attempt failed. Vance had doubts that the rescue would work and thought it would undermine diplomacy, but he waited to announce his resignation until after the first rescue was attempted. The second rescue was planned but never carried out.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Arthur Atherton, William H. Sullivan, Vance, President Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1977]] In 1997, he was made the original honorary chair of the American Iranian Council.
In 1991 he was named Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Croatia and proposed a plan for solution of conflict in Croatia. Authorities of Croatia and Serbia agreed to Vance's plan, but the leaders of SAO Krajina rejected it, even though it offered Serbs quite a large degree of autonomy by the rest of the world's standards, as it did not include full independence for Krajina. He continued his work as member of Zagreb 4 group. The plan they drafted, named Z-4, was effectively superseded when Croatian forces retook the Krajina region (Operation Storm) in 1995.
In January 1993, as the United Nations Special Envoy to Bosnia, Vance and Lord David Owen, the EU representative, began negotiating a peace plan for the ending the War in Bosnia. Their plan was criticised as conceding too much to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić and for treating him as a diplomatic equal to the leaders of Bosnia and Croatia, when others regarded him as a war criminal. Nevertheless, it was Bosnian Serbs that first rejected the plan, and Vance announced his resignation as Special Envoy to the UN Secretary-General. He was replaced by Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg.
In 1995, Cyrus Vance again acted as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and signed the interim accord as witness in the negotiations between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece.
Vance also was a member of the Trilateral Commission.
He died aged 84 after a long battle of pneumonia in New York after having Alzheimer's disease for many years, and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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