Peter B. Bensinger is a former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration

Drug Enforcement Administration

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 (DEA). He served from February 1976 to July 1981 in this position. He was appointed Acting

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 Administrator on January 23, 1976, and confirmed by the United States Senate

United States Senate

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 on February 5, 1976. Administrator Bensinger was sworn in on February 23, 1976.

He served under the Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

, Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

 and Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 administration. In his time of office, the Operation Trizo has been established and started. With that operation, the DEA and the Mexican government fought illegal poppy

Opium poppy

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are extracted. Opium is the source of many opiates, including morphine , thebaine, codeine, papaverine, and noscapine...

 plantations in Mexico by destroying crops with spraying

Aerial application

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 and lead to many arrests of drug offenders.

After graduation from Yale University

Yale University

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, he worked as a General sales manager

Sales management

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 with the Brunswick Corporation

Brunswick Corporation

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 (1958-1968) and with the Illinois Attorney General

Illinois Attorney General

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 among other positions. In 1982, Bensinger became president and CEO

Chief executive officer

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of Bensinger, DuPont & Associates in Chicago, established 1982.