Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams is a former American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Abrams was convicted for withholding information from Congress about the IranContra affair while serving for Reagan, but pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.

Abrams was born into a Jewish family in New York in 1948. His father was an immigration lawyer. Abrams received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1969, a masters degree in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1970, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973. He practiced law in New York in the summers for his father, and then at Breed, Abbott and Morgan from 1973 to 1975 and with Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand from 1979 to 1981.

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