John M. Duncan was born on September 26, 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois. Oak Park has easy access to downtown Chicago due to public transportation such as the Chicago 'L' Blue and Green lines,...

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President George W. Bush

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 nominated John M. Duncan to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs on February 28, 2001. Mr. Duncan served as Administrative Assistant to former Senator William Roth as well as Majority Staff Director on the Senate Committee on Government Affairs. He is a native of Oak Park, Illinois, and is a veteran of the United States Army

United States Army

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. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 and a master's degree from the Department of Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York.