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The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order (10924) of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the Peace Corps Act.
Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, [2] and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty. [3] He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1972 presidential election.
In June 2023, President Joe Biden nominated White to serve as deputy director of the Peace Corps. [9] Hearings on his nomination were held by the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on October 19, 2023, and his nomination was reported favorably by the committee on October 25, 2023. [ 10 ]
Jack Hood Vaughn (August 18, 1920 – October 29, 2012) [2] was the second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver.Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson and was the first Republican to head the agency.
While President John F. Kennedy is often credited for creating the Peace Corps, Humphrey introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957—three years before Kennedy's University of Michigan speech. [86] A trio of journalists wrote of Humphrey in 1969 that "few men in American politics have achieved so much of lasting significance.
She was the Peace Corps Chief of Staff from 1989 to 1992, the executive director of the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) from 1992 until 1997, the senior vice president of the Academy for Educational Development from 1997 until 2002, a development consultancy. Olsen served as the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps from 2002 to 2009. [4]
Carter's son, Jimmy Carter, served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She was also known for her contributions as a Peace Corps volunteer in India and for writing two books during her son’s presidency.
Mark Daniel Gearan (born September 19, 1956) [1] is an American lawyer and the president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.He previously served as a director at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics from 1995 to 1999 and as the director of the Peace Corps.