Early Life
Before Peters had entered school, his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and attended public schools in a northern suburb of Chicago where is father had an architectural business. His father died when he was 13. Peters went on to earn a scholarship to Harvard University from the Harvard Club of Chicago. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in government and economics in 1968.
In 1969, Peters joined the United States Navy, and earned distinguished graduate honors from the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. Because of his computer training at Harvard, he was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Intelligence Center in Norfolk, Virginia, where he ran the computer systems division. The sensitive nature of the information he handled at the Norfolk intelligence center prevented him from assignment to a war zone and prohibited him from traveling to a number of foreign countries for 10 years following the assignment. While he was there, the intelligence center received a meritorious unit citation for discovering Russian-built submarine pens in Cuba.
In February 1972, he was released by the Navy and hired back the next day as a civilian employee to complete a special project. In August 1972, he received Harvard’s Frank Knox Traveling Fellowship to attend the London School of Economics. He earned a master of arts degree with distinction in economics in 1973. He then entered Harvard Law School. He served as president of the Harvard Law Review for two years, and graduated magna cum laude with a doctor of laws degree in 1976.
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