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Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.〔 Prior to that position he was the Secretary of the Army and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April 1980, Vance resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran. He was succeeded in the position by Edmund Muskie. Vance was the cousin (and adoptive son) of 1924 Democratic presidential candidate and lawyer John W. Davis.〔"Cyrus was only 5 years old when his father died. In the ensuing years, the boy developed an exceptionally close relationship with his first cousin, best friend and mentor, John W. Davis, who had been a member of Congress, ambassador to Britain and Democratic candidate for president in 1924. It was through Mr. Davis that Mr. Vance said he developed an early interest in the law." (from his NYTimes obituary).〕 He is the father of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. ==Early life and family== Vance was born on March 27, 1917, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He was the son of John Carl Vance II and his wife Amy Roberts Vance, and had an older brother, John Carl Vance III.〔 Following Vance's birth, his family relocated to Bronxville, New York, so that his father could commute to Manhattan where he was an insurance broker. Vance's father was also a landowner and worked for a government agency during World War I.〔 He died unexpectedly of pneumonia in 1922.〔 Vance's mother was Amy Roberts Vance, who had a prominent family history in Philadelphia and was active in civic affairs.〔 Following her husband's death, she moved her family to Switzerland for a year, where Vance and his brother learned French at L'Institut Sillig in Vevey.〔 Vance's cousin John W. Davis, an Ambassador to the United Kingdom and 1924 United States presidential candidate, became his mentor and adopted him. Vance graduated from Kent School in 1935〔 and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Yale University,〔 where he was a member of the secret society Scroll and Key. He also earned three varsity letters in ice hockey at Yale. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1942.〔 Vance entered the US military during World War II, serving in the Navy as a gunnery officer on the destroyer USS ''Hale'' (DD-642) until 1946. Upon returning to civilian life he joined the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City,〔 and later entered government services. At the age of 29, Vance married Grace Elsie "Gay" Sloane on February 15, 1947. She was a Bryn Mawr graduate and was the daughter of the board chairman of the W. & J. Sloane furniture company in New York City. They had five children: * Elsie Nicoll Vance * Amy Sloane Vance * Grace Roberts Vance * Camilla Vance Holmes * Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cyrus Vance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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