William Sebastian Cohen (born August 8th 1940) is a American Politicien .

Member of the Republican party of which it represents the moderated wing, William Cohen was republican Senator Maine before entering in 1997 the government of the democrat Bill Clinton.

He was secretary with the Defense of Bill Clinton of 1997 with 2001.

Biography

Former American secretary with Defense, William S. Cohen was born in 1940 with Bangor (Maine). After studies of right to Boston, he will be partner in a law firm. Prosecutor of district, municipal then mayor of Bangor, the State of Maine will elect it with the Chambre of the representatives, then with the Sénat of the United States, where it will belong to committees centered on defense. Fine expert of the mysteries federal, it is named secretary with Defense in 1996, though republican, by the president Clinton, democrat, who wants to be based on an American consensus in an agitated international climate. In 2001, the president George W. Bush replaces it by Donald Rumsfeld.

Mr. Cohen, today in the private sector, works for an American firm of public relations representing of the european consumers who are interested by construction in subcontracting of this type of amphibious building whose United States recently stopped the production on their ground.

He also forms part of the study committee on Iraq, chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton. This committee (compound of republicans and democrats) creates by president Bush is charged to study the situation in Iraq and to find solutions there.

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