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Grave at Arlington National Cemetery. While at Middlebury College, Ron Brown became the first African-American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, collegiate fraternity.Brown was commissioned through the ROTC program as a 2nd Lieutenant of Armor in the United States Army in 1962 after graduating from Middlebury, the same year he married Alma Arrington.
President Bill Clinton named the most African-Americans as secretaries to his first-term cabinet, with four: former U.S. representative Mike Espy (D-MS) as Secretary of Agriculture; DNC chairman Ron Brown as Secretary of Commerce; corporate director Hazel R. O'Leary as Secretary of Energy; and DAV executive director Jesse Brown as Secretary of ...
This category is for articles about cabinet members during President Bill Clinton's administration. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
In January 1993, Brown was selected by President Bill Clinton to the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs, [3] serving until July 1997. He was the first African American to hold that post. He is also the first former enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces named Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Herman also earned the respect of members of the business community as part of her effort to gain support for the Clinton Administration's trade deal, the North American Free Trade Agreement. [3] Her time as director also included the death of Commerce Secretary , and Herman's former boss at the Democratic National Committee, Ronald Brown in a ...
The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized President-elect Trump for lacking Black Cabinet or high-level administration appointees thus far. “In the two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to a second ...
Togo Dennis West Jr. (June 21, 1942 – March 8, 2018) was an American attorney and public official.A Democrat, he was the third person to occupy the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs during the Bill Clinton administration serving from 1998 until his resignation in 2000.
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