page_title: Christopher Stevens
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Stevens / Political career
caption_attribution_description: President Barack Obama signs a condolence book in memory of Chris Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya, after addressing State Department employees at the State Department in Washington, D.C., Sept. 12, 2012. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stands at left. Amb. Stevens was killed along with three others at the consulate in Benghazi, Libya yesterday. Behind the President and Secretary Clinton is a memorial to foreign service officials who have lost their lives while serving abroad.
context_page_description: John Christopher "Chris" Stevens was the tenth American ambassador to Libya from June 7, 2012 until his death on September 12, 2012.
context_section_description: Stevens joined the United States Foreign Service in 1991. His early overseas assignments included: deputy principal officer and political section chief in Jerusalem; political officer in Damascus; consular/political officer in Cairo; and consular/economic officer in Riyadh. In Washington, Stevens served as Director of the Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs; Pearson Fellow with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; special assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Iran desk officer; and staff assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
caption: President Barack Obama signing a condolence book for Stevens with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, September 2012
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