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Director of National Intelligence, 2010–2017
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James R. Clapper Jr. was born in Fort Wayne on March 14, 1941. His Fort Wayne tie is his birth: he was the son of an Army officer and was raised on postings around the world, graduating from Nurnberg American High School in West Germany and from the University of Maryland in 1963. He served in the Air Force and retired as a lieutenant general, directing the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1992 to 1995. He then became the first civilian director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency — renamed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on his watch — serving from 2001 to 2006, and on August 9, 2010, he became the fourth Director of National Intelligence, serving until January 20, 2017. His memoir, Facts and Fears, appeared in 2018.
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Sources: NNDB (executive profile); the DIA, NGA, and ODNI directorship lists (public service record).