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Christopher Stevens
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American diplomat, lawyer and ambassador to Libya (1960-2012)
OverviewAI-generated
Christopher Stevens was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as a member of the Peace Corps and held the position of ambassador. Stevens was a member of the Democratic Party. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and the National War College.
Born in Grass Valley in 1960, Stevens died in Benghazi in 2012. His death was caused by smoke inhalation injury and classified as an accidental death. He was buried in California. Stevens is also credited as an author with works such as *Born Brilliant* and *The Uruguay Round and Europe 1992*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 51
Top works
- Born Brilliant
- Secret and Forbidden the moral history of the passions of mankind
- born brilliant
- The Uruguay Round and Europe 1992
- One Nation under Christ :
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1948-07-21
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 202
- Total plays
- 8,066
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Christopher+Stevens">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,631x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,568x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- President
- Barack Obama
- Preceded by
- Gene Cretz
- Succeeded by
- Laurence Pope , (as Chargé d'affaires )
- Born
- John Christopher Stevens , ( 1960-04-18 ) April 18, 1960, Grass Valley, California , U.S.
- Died
- September 11, 2012 (2012-09-11) (aged 52), Benghazi , Libya
- Cause of death
- Assassinated during 2012 Benghazi attack
- Party
- Democratic
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley ( BA ), University of California, Hastings ( JD ), National Defense University ( MS )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christopher
- Family name
- Stevens
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Grass Valley
- Place of death
- Benghazi
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Position held
- ambassador
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Image
- Ambassador christopher stevens.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- cause of death
- smoke inhalation injury
- date of birth
- 1960-04-01
- date of death
- 2012-09-12
- manner of death
- accidental death
- member of
- Peace Corps
- place of burial
- California
- name in native language
- Christopher Stevens
- Commons category
- J. Christopher Stevens
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
John Christopher Stevens (April 18, 1960 – September 11, 2012) was an American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, to September 11, 2012. Stevens was killed when the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by members of Ansar al-Sharia on September 11–12, 2012., making Stevens the eighth and most recent U.S. Ambassador to be killed while in office.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christopher Stevens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.