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Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is ...

, directing the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and serving as a Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs.

Life and career

Shearer was born in

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on December 5, 1946. He received a

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from

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. Retrieved on August 5, 2014. His roommate at Yale was

Strobe Talbott Nelson Strobridge Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst focused on Russia. He was associated with ''Time'' magazine, and a diplomat who served as the deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001. He was president ...

.Brooke Shearer dies at 58; former journalist, personal aide to Hillary Clinton
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''. Retrieved on August 6, 2014. Shearer received a

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from the

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. Shearer held his ambassador post from 1994 through 1997, and before that served in the

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. He had co-written the book ''

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''. May 22, 1999. Retrieved on August 5, 2014. He is the son of gossip columnist Lloyd Shearer. He has a younger brother, Cody, and a sister, Brooke. The parents of his father had immigrated from

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

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Lloyd Shearer; Leader of the 'Personality Parade'
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''. May 28, 2001. His roommate Talbott married his sister Brooke. Shearer was married to Ruth Yannatta Goldway, who had served as the mayor of

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

. As of 2009, Derek Shearer lives in the Pacific Palisades community of

with his wife, Sue Toigo, a financial consultant.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shearer, Derek 1946 births Living people Occidental College faculty Ambassadors of the United States to Finland Yale University alumni American people of Austrian descent Union Institute & University alumni