Editing Cyrus Vance (section)

{{short description|American lawyer and government official (1917–2002)}}
{{about|the former U.S. secretary of the army and secretary of state|his son, the New York County district attorney|Cyrus Vance Jr.}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Cyrus Vance
| image               = Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State (University of Georgia, College of Agriculture).jpg
| caption             = Vance in 1977
| order               = 57th
| office              = United States Secretary of State
| president           = [[Jimmy Carter]]
| deputy              = [[Warren Christopher]]
| term_start          = January 20, 1977
| term_end            = April 28, 1980
| predecessor         = [[Henry Kissinger]]
| successor           = [[Edmund Muskie]]
| office1             = 11th [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense]]
| president1          = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
| term_start1         = January 28, 1964
| term_end1           = June 30, 1967
| predecessor1        = [[Roswell Gilpatric]]
| successor1          = [[Paul Nitze]]
| office2             = 7th [[United States Secretary of the Army]]
| president2          = [[John F. Kennedy]]<br>Lyndon B. Johnson
| term_start2         = July 5, 1962
| term_end2           = January 21, 1964
| predecessor2        = [[Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr.]]
| successor2          = [[Stephen Ailes]]
| office3             = [[General Counsel of the Department of Defense]]
| president3          = John F. Kennedy
| term_start3         = January 29, 1961
| term_end3           = June 30, 1962
| predecessor3        = Vincent Burke
| successor3          = [[John McNaughton (government official)|John McNaughton]]
| birth_name          = Cyrus Roberts Vance
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1917|3|27}}
| birth_place         = [[Clarksburg, West Virginia]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2002|1|12|1917|3|27}}
| death_place         = [[New York City]], U.S.
| restingplace        = [[Arlington National Cemetery]]
| party               = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Gay Sloane|February 15, 1947<!--|January 12, 2002|end=his death-->}}
| children            = 5, including [[Cyrus Vance Jr.|Cyrus Jr.]]
| relatives           = [[John W. Davis]] (adoptive father)
| education           = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
| signature           = Cyrus Vance Signature.svg
| allegiance          = United States 
| branch              = [[United States Navy]]
| rank                = [[Lieutenant (navy)|Lieutenant]]
| serviceyears        = 1942–1946
| unit                = [[USS Hale (DD-642)|USS ''Hale'' (DD-642)]]
| battles             = [[World War II]]
}}

'''Cyrus Roberts Vance''' (March 27, 1917{{spaced ndash}}January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 57th [[United States Secretary of State]] under President [[Jimmy Carter]] from 1977 to 1980.<ref name=obit/> Prior to serving in that position, he was the [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense]] in the [[Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson administration]]. During the [[Presidency of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy administration]] he was [[Secretary of the Army]] and [[General Counsel of the Department of Defense]].<ref name="bell199">{{cite book |last=Bell |first=William Gardner |year=1992 |title=Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: Portraits and Biographical Sketches |chapter=Cyrus Roberts Vance |chapter-url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/sw-sa/Vance.htm |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |access-date=September 22, 2007 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/sw-sa/SWSA-Fm.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214152450/http://www.history.army.mil/books/Sw-SA/SWSA-Fm.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2007}}</ref>

As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in [[arms reduction]]. In April 1980, he resigned in protest of [[Operation Eagle Claw]], the secret mission to rescue [[Iran hostage crisis|American hostages in Iran]]. He was succeeded by [[Edmund Muskie]].

Vance was the cousin (and adoptive son) of [[1924 United States presidential election|1924 Democratic presidential nominee]] and lawyer [[John W. Davis]]. He was the father of [[New York County District Attorney|Manhattan District Attorney]] [[Cyrus Vance Jr.]]