Mayor London Breed said Shultz embodied "San Francisco values. [31], Shultz relied primarily on the Foreign Service to formulate and implement Reagan's foreign policy. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, the longtime chief of protocol for the city of San Francisco. Obituary. George Pratt Shultz (/lts/; December 13, 1920 February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman. George Pratt Shultz was born Dec. 13, 1920, in New York City and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 9, 2023 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church. His senior thesis, "The Agricultural Program of the Tennessee Valley Authority", examined the Tennessee Valley Authority's effect on local agriculture, for which he conducted on-site research. [4][6] In April 2013, he co-wrote, with economist Gary Becker, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that concluded that this plan would "benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers. ", This page was last edited on 8 February 2023, at 13:32. He was born February 16, 1950 in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of the late George P. Sr. and Mary (Duvall) Shultz. [12] In 1938, Shultz graduated from the private preparatory boarding high school Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. This article was amended on 8 February 2021. February 8, 2021, 9:22 AM. [36], Following the missile deployment and the exercises, both Shultz and Reagan resolved to seek further dialogue with the Soviets. He soon faced the crisis of the Longshoremen's Union strike. A year later Reagan and Gorbachev signed the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, eliminating a whole class of nuclear-related weapons. Your browser does not support the