Robert Gates biography

[December 01, 2008]  (AP)

NAME -- Robert Michael Gates

AGE; BIRTH DATE; LOCATION -- 65; Sept. 25, 1943; Wichita, Kan.

EXPERIENCE -- Secretary of defense, 2006-present; president, Texas A&M University, 2002-2006; interim dean, George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, 1999-2001; director, CIA, 1991-1993; assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, 1989-1991; acting director, CIA, 1986-1987; deputy director, CIA, 1986-1989; chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1983-1986; deputy director for intelligence, 1982-1986; director of executive staff, CIA, 1981-1982; staff, National Security Council, 1974-1979; intelligence analyst, CIA, 1966-1974.

EDUCATION -- B.A., European history, College of William and Mary, 1965; M.A., history, Indiana University, 1966; Ph.D., Russian and Soviet history, Georgetown University, 1974.

FAMILY -- Wife, Rebecca Wilkie Gates, two children.

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