What is Richard H. Solomon?
[[File:Richard H. Solomon, Dean Acheson Lecture June 28, 2012.jpg|thumb|Richard H. Solomon in 2012]] '''Richard Harvey Solomon''' (June 19, 1937 &ndash; March 13, 2017)<ref>[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79113279.html Library of Congress Name Authority File: Solomon, Richard H., 1937-]</ref> was an American diplomat. He served as the United States [[Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs]] from 1989 to 1992, after which he was Ambassador to the [[Philippines]]. In September 1993, he became president of the [[United States Institute of Peace]], a position he held until September 2012. He later joined the [[RAND Corporation]] as a Senior Fellow. Solomon was born in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He studied at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. Solomon died on March 13, 2017 in [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]] from [[brain cancer]], aged 79. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} * [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16846 President Bush's nomination of Solomon as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs] * [http://www.nndb.com/people/753/000120393/ NNDB profile] * [http://www.usip.org/specialists/richard-h-solomon Profile from the United States Institute of Peace] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529043147/http://www.usip.org/specialists/richard-h-solomon |date=2010-05-29 }} * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/richard-solomon-kissinger-aide-involved-in-ping-pong-diplomacy-with-china-dies-at-79/2017/03/14/a8866d74-ef03-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?utm_term=.6d38d0f8a232] {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Soloman, Richard H.}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from brain cancer]] [[Category:Ambassadors of the United States]] [[Category:Politicians from Philadelphia]]