- John Robert Bolton was born November 20, 1948 to Virginia Clara "Ginny" and Edward Jackson "Jack" Bolton.
- Bolton served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, appointed by President George W. Bush.
- Bolton is currently of counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm Kirkland & Ellis.
- Bolton was a foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
- Bolton is involved with a number of politically think tanks and policy institutes, including the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs(JINSA) and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
- Known for his views on foreign policy, often equating diplomacy with weakness and indecisiveness, Bolton is often described as a neoconservative, though he personally rejects the term.
- Bolton supported the Vietnam War but enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard to avoid being sent overseas, and consequently did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy”.
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- During the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, he worked in several positions within the State Department, the Justice Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Bolton was also involved in the Iran–Contra affair.
- Assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs at the Department of State (1989–93), Bolton played a major role in obtaining UN resolutions endorsing the use of force to fight Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
- Bolton was formerly involved with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Project on Transitional Democracies.
- In 2002, Bolton accused Cuba of transfers of biological weapons technology to rogue states and called on it "to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention." According to a Scripps Howard News Service article, Bolton "wanted to say that Cuba had a biological weapons capacity and that it was exporting it to other nations. The intelligence analysts seemed to want to limit the assessment to a declaration that Cuba 'could' develop such weapons." According to AlterNet, Bolton attempted to have the chief bioweapons analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the CIA's national intelligence officer for Latin America reassigned. Under oath at his Senate hearings for confirmation as ambassador, he denied trying to have the men fired, but seven intelligence officials contradicted him.
- In a paper on U.S. participation in the UN, Bolton stated "the United Nations can be a useful instrument in the conduct of American foreign policy." Bolton noted that the U.S. had the option of relying on regional or other international organizations to advance its goals if the U.N. proves inadequate.
- On three episodes of Fox News in May and June 2008, Bolton suggested that Israel might attack Iran after US elections in November.
- On July 27, 2009, John Bolton was appointed to the board of directors for EMS Technologies, Inc. (ELMG), a Georgia based tech company that subcontracts for many DOD contractors.
- Fellow Republican presidential-hopeful Newt Gingrich announced that he would ask Bolton to serve as his Secretary of State.
- On January 11, 2012, Bolton endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican Nomination.
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