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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1770 

Honoring the passing of the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke, 

a top ranking United States diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, 

Peace Corps official, and investment banker. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 16, 2010 

Mr. TURNER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the passing of the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke, a top ranking United States diplomat, 

magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, 

and investment banker. 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

succeeded in bringing resolution to many difficult assignments over a career that spanned continents and decades; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

began his diplomatic work as a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam in 1962 and ended it serving as the 

President’s Special Representative to Afghanistan and 

Pakistan, serving 5 different presidential administrations 

in every corner of the globe; 


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Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

was the only person to have held the position of Assistant 

Secretary of State for 2 different regions of the world, 

Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

had one of the most distinguished diplomatic careers in 

the Nation’s history and served as a strong advocate for 

United States national security interests in Asia, Europe, 

and the Middle East; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

was a skilled United States diplomat who forged a historic deal to end Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World 

War II; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke is 

best known as the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton 

Peace Accords, the peace treaty that ended the Balkans 

War that threatened to destabilize Europe and resulted 

in the death of approximately 250,000 people, and the 

displacement of more than 2,000,000 men, women, and 

children; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

was awarded the Dayton Peace Prize in 2005 crediting 

his success in part to the support he received from the 

citizens of Dayton for helping move forward the negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke’s 

passing on December 13, 2010, came almost 15 years to 

the day after the December 14, 1995, signing of the Dayton Peace Accords that bears his indelible imprint; 

Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 

will be remembered for his forceful personality, command 


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of the facts, brilliance, wit, and skill that amazed and at 

times intimidated both friends and opponents at the negotiating table; and 

Whereas with the passing of the Honorable Richard Charles 

Albert Holbrooke, the United States has lost an outstanding diplomat and public servant: Now, therefore, be 

it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) honors the passing of the Honorable Rich3 ard Charles Albert Holbrooke, a distinguished dip4 lomat and public servant; and 

5 (2) respectfully requests that the Clerk of the 

6 House transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to 

7 the family of the Honorable Richard Charles Albert 

8 Holbrooke. 

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