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Joseph Duffey Joseph Daniel Duffey ( July 1 , 1932 – February 25 , 2021 ) was an American academic , educator , anti-war activist and political appointee . He was the Democratic Partys candidate in the 1970 U.S . Senate election in Connecticut , losing to Republican Lowell Weicker . He later served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs ; the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities ; the director of the U.S . Information Agency ; and the president or chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst , the University of Massachusetts system and American University . Early life and education . Duffey was born in Huntington , West Virginia , on July 1 , 1932 . His father initially worked as a coal miner , but became a barber after losing a leg in an accident . His mother died when he was thirteen . Duffey was the first person in his family to study past grade four . He obtained a bachelors degree from Marshall University in 1954 . He went on to earn a B.D . from Andover Theological School ( now part of Yale Divinity School ) in 1957 , an S.T.M . from Yale University in 1963 and a Ph.D . from Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1969 . Career . From 1960 to 1970 , Duffey was an assistant professor and then acting dean and associate professor at Hartford Seminary . He was also founder and director of the Center for Urban Studies there . 1970 election . Duffey ran for the U.S . Senate in 1970 as a prominent anti-Vietnam War candidate ; he had just turned 35 years old . The campaign became notable because several of Duffeys young supporters went on to prominent careers in Democratic politics , including future president Bill Clinton , a Yale Law School student at the time . The incumbent in that race , Thomas J . Dodd , was the father of future Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd . Dodd , who had been censured by the Senate for corruption , was not re-nominated by the Democratic Party . Instead , Duffey joined Stamford businessman Alphonsus J . ( Al ) Donahue , State Senate President Edward Marcus , and former congressman Donald J . Irwin in a race to win the party endorsement . Donahue won the Democratic convention , but Duffey went on to win the primary . He finished second in a three-way general election race to Lowell Weicker , with Senator Dodd running as an independent . Some of these events were captured in a documentary , Dissent of the Governed . Anne Wexler ran Duffeys 1970 campaign . They subsequently married in September 1974 , after they had both divorced their respective spouses . Academics . Duffey was a fellow at Harvard Universitys John F . Kennedy School of Government in 1971 . He went on to serve as an adjunct professor at Yale University and a fellow at Calhoun College from 1971 to 1973 . During this time , he worked for the George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign . From 1974 to 1976 , he acted as the chief administrative officer and spokesman for the American Association of University Professors . He worked on the Carter–Mondale transition team between 1976 and 1977 , and was Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in 1977 and 1978 . Duffey was unsatisfied in the latter role , and was reportedly unenthusiastic about being nominated to the National Endowment for the Humanities . Duffey was appointed chairman of the NEH in August 1977 , after an impasse that lasted for half a year . He served in that capacity until 1982 , when he became chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst . The position of president of the entire University of Massachusetts system was added to his responsibilities in 1990 . One year later , he acted as joint head of the American delegation of election observers in Ethiopia . He was named as president of American University in 1991 and served for two years . Duffey became the final director of the United States Information Agency in 1993 . He held the position until June 30 , 1999 , shortly before USIA was incorporated into the State Department on October 1 of that year . He subsequently joined Laureate Education as senior vice president in 1999 . There , he was responsible for education and academic quality and coordinated the development of Laureate International Universities network programs and partnerships worldwide . Honors . Duffey was conferred 14 honorary degrees from American colleges and universities . He was named Commander of the Order of the Crown by the King of Belgium in 1980 . Thirteen years later , he was granted an honorary Doctor of Letters by Ritsumeikan University in Japan . He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1979 until his death . Personal life . Duffey married his first wife , Patricia Fortney , in 1952 , when he was 19 years old . They had met at a Baptist church youth convention . Together , they had two children : David ( who predeceased him in 2019 ) and Michael . They divorced after the Senate election in 1970 . His second wife , Anne Wexler ( 1930–2009 ) , was a political advisor and lobbyist . She also had two sons from her previous marriage . She died of cancer on August 7 , 2009 at age 79 . Duffey died on February 25 , 2021 , at a retirement community in Washington , D.C . He was 88 , and was ill in the time leading up to his death . Selected works . - Remarks on the Humanities ( 1977 ) - The American Century and Its Discontents , Chapter Four of At the End of the American Century ( 1998 ) - Foreword , The Pakistan Cauldron by James P . Farwell ( 2011 ) External links . - Profile at SourceWatch