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Paul Wolfowitz

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Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
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December 22, 1943, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. (age 81)

Paul Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is a U.S. government official, who, as deputy secretary of defense (2001–05) in the administration of Pres. George W. Bush, was a leading architect of the Iraq War. From 2005 to 2007 he was president of the World Bank. Wolfowitz’s father, a Polish immigrant whose family died in the Holocaust, taught mathematics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where Paul earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1965. As a young man, he began reading about history and politics, and in 1963 he traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate ...(100 of 429 words)

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