American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. Stevens was killed when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked by al-Qaeda Islamic militants on September 11–12, 2012.
Stevens was born on April 18, 1960 in Grass Valley, California, the eldest of three siblings born to Jan S. Stevens, a California Assistant Attorney General, and his wife Mary J. Stevens (née Floris), from a West Coast family of French, Swedish and Chinook ancestry. Stevens was raised in Northern California and had two younger siblings, Anne (b. 1962) and Thomas (b. 1965).
Stevens is buried in Forester's Cemetery in Grass Valley, California.
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