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Cyrus Vance, who served as United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980, died on January 12, 2002, at the age of 84. Vance was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1917. He graduated from Yale University in 1939 and served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, Vance worked as a lawyer and then as a diplomat. He served as President Lyndon B.