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|name        = Porter Johnston Goss
|image       = Porter goss.jpg
|state       = [[Florida]]
|district    = [[Florida's 13th congressional district|13th]] and [[Florida's 14th congressional district|14th]]
|term_start  = January 3, 1989
|term_end    = January 3, 1993 (13th){{br}}January 3, 1993 – September 23, 2004 (14th)
|preceded    = [[Connie Mack III]]{{br}}[[Harry Johnston]]
|succeeded   = [[Dan Miller (U.S. politician)|Dan Miller]]{{br}}[[Connie Mack IV]]
|order2      = 19th [[Director of Central Intelligence]]/[[Director of the Central Intelligence Agency]]
|term_start2 = September 24, 2004
|term_end2   = May 5, 2006
|president2  = [[George W. Bush]]
|preceded2   = [[George Tenet]]
|succeeded2  = [[John Negroponte]] (as [[United States Director of National Intelligence|DNI]]){{br}}[[Michael Hayden]] (as [[Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|Director of the CIA]])
|birth_date  = December 10, 1938
|birth_place = [[Waterbury, Connecticut]]
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|party       = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
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'''Porter Johnston Goss'''  (born December 10, 1938) is an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]]. He was the last [[Director of Central Intelligence]] and the first [[Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|Director]] of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] following the passage of the 2004 [[Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act]], which abolished the DCI position. A CIA officer in [[Latin America]] during the [[Cold War]], he served as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] from 1989 until he took up his post at the agency.

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[[Category:1938 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency]]
[[Category:Politicians from Connecticut]]
[[Category:United States representatives from Florida]]
[[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]]
[[Category:People from Waterbury, Connecticut]]