William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director, has died at the age of 101, his family announced Friday.

Webster led the FBI from 1978 to 1987 and the CIA from 1987 to 1991, making him the only person to head the nation’s top law enforcement agency and its main intelligence agency.

“We are proud of the extraordinary man we had in our lives who spent a lifetime fighting to protect his country and its precious rule of law,” his family said in a statement.

Before his time leading agencies in Washington, he served as a federal prosecutor and later spent about eight years as a federal judge.

He also served in the US Navy during World War II and the Korean War.

Former President Jimmy Carter tapped Webster, a Republican, for a 10-year term as head of the FBI as the agency attempted to b

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