Obituary: George Shultz, 100, made his name in D.C., but Stanford was home

Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who served Republican administrations from Eisenhower to Reagan and helped hasten the end of the Cold War, died Saturday at his Stanford campus home at the age of 100.

Despite being born in New York City in 1920 and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, Shultz forged deep ties to the Bay Area through Stanford University, where he was a fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.