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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 ...
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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-elect Bill Clinton had vowed to assemble an administration that "looked like America", and it was widely assumed that one of the major cabinet posts would go to a woman. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] On February 11, 1993, Clinton introduced Reno as his nominee for United States Attorney General , stating that he wanted to hire a woman for the job but ...
Clinton administration cabinet members (4 C, 55 P) ... Pages in category "Clinton administration personnel" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
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.
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 ...
Norman Yoshio Mineta [1] (Japanese: 峯田 良雄, November 12, 1931 – May 3, 2022) was an American politician from California.A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta served in the Cabinet for US Presidents Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican.