- Carlos Gutierrez
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez is the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. Gutierrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner. Faced with the expropriation of their property following the Cuban Revolution, his family fled for the United States in 1960 when he was six years old. - Ron Brown
Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 - April 3, 1996), was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He was the first African American to hold this position. - Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st United States President. His acts of philanthropy ranged from monetary donations to volunteerism. Hoover donated his entire presidential salary to charity. More >> Hoover is known for being elected president by one of the biggest majorities in the history of the Republican Party. Hoover's administration worked for legislation to protect children, to help small businesses and homeowners, and legislation for the reform of criminals. - Robert Mosbacher
Robert Adam Mosbacher (born March 11 1927) is a U.S. businessman. He was the Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, his father was a wealthy stock trader who cashed in most of his holdings before Wall Street crashed, so the family did not suffer during the Depression. Robert Mosbacher graduated from Washington & Lee University in Virginia in 1947 with a degree in business administration. - Donald Evans
Donald Louis Evans (born July 27, 1946) was the 34th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Bush and sworn into office on January 20, 2001. On November 9, 2004, the White House announced that Evans intended to resign by the end of January 2005, surprising many who believed he would remain in the Bush cabinet under a different position. Donald Evans was chosen to be the Non-Executive Chairman of TXU Energy, … - Barbara Hackman Franklin
Barbara Hackman Franklin was the 29th United States Secretary of Commerce and was the highest-ranking woman in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she achieved a major goal – increasing American exports – with emphasis on market-opening initiatives in China, Russia, Japan and Mexico. - Harry Hopkins
Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17 1890 - January 29 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. In World War II he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor and troubleshooter and was a key policy maker in the $50 billion Lend Lease program that sent aid to the allies. - William M. Daley
William Michael Daley (born 1948) served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and is a business executive. William Daley was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 8, 1948. In his spare time as a teenager and young adult, he liked to play the trombone in a New Jersey-based ska-punk-reggae band, Drive-Thru Pharmacy. He graduated with a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago, and an LL.B. (later amended to Juris Doctor) from John Marshall Law School. - Alexander Buel Trowbridge
Alexander Buel Trowbridge III was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967 to March 1, 1968 in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. Alexander Trowbridge was born on December 12, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey. As a young man he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1947, graduating from Princeton University in 1951. After World War II he worked with various reconstruction efforts. - Mickey Kantor
Michael "Mickey" Kantor (born August 7, 1939 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American politician and lawyer. After serving as the Clinton-Gore campaign chair in 1992, Kantor was appointed United States Trade Representative, holding that office from 1993 to 1997. He was, in 1996 and 1997, United States Secretary of Commerce. - Norman Mineta
Norman Yoshio Mineta (born November 12, 1931) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is one of the most successful Asian American politicians in U.S. history. Mineta most recently served in the President's Cabinet of George W. Bush as the United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Republican George W. Bush Administration. - William Verity Jr.
William Verity Jr. (Calvin William Verity, C. William Verity) (January 26, 1917-January 3, 2007) was a U.S. administrator and steel industrialist. He served as the Secretary of Commerce between 1987 and 1989, under President Ronald Reagan. A native of Middletown, Ohio, Verity worked for most of his career at Armco Steel, a corporation founded by his grandfather. He retired from Armco in 1982. - Juanita M. Kreps
Juanita Kreps was born in Lynch, Kentucky, on January 11, 1921. She received a B.A. from Berea College and, in 1944, an M.A. in economics from Duke University. Kreps taught economics at Denison College in Ohio and then at Duke, becoming a vice president of the university in 1973. She also became director of the New York Stock Exchange -- the first woman to hold that post. - Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 - November 18, 1965) was the thirty-third Vice President of the United States (1941-45), the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), and the tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945-46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party. - Jesse Holman Jones
Jesse Holman Jones (also known as Jesse H. Jones) (April 5, 1874 - June 1, 1956) was a Houston, Texas politician and entrepreneur. He served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1940 to 1945. Born in Robertson County, Tennessee, Jones was the son of a tobacco farmer and merchant. His father sent him to manage a tobacco factory at age 14, and at 19 he was put in charge of his uncle's lumberyards. - Sinclair Weeks
Charles Sinclair Weeks (June 15 1893 - February 7 1972), better known as Sinclair Weeks, was United States Secretary of Commerce from January 21, 1953 to November 10, 1958 under Dwight Eisenhower. Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, in 1893, he was also the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935 and a United States senator from Massachusetts from February 1944 when he was appointed by the governor following the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge, … - Roy D. Chapin
Roy Dikeman Chapin (23 February, 1880 - February 10, 1936) was an American industrialist and automaker. He also served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from August 8, 1932, to March 3, 1933, in the last months of the administration of President Herbert Hoover. Chapin was born in 1880 in Lansing, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan. He married Inez Tiedeman in 1914. The couple had six children. - William F. Whiting
William Fairfield Whiting (born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on July 20, 1864, died August 31, 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce August 22, 1928 to March 4, 1929, during the last months of the administration of Calvin Coolidge. - W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman (November 15 1891 - July 26 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Truman and later as Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson. - Peter George Peterson
Peter George Peterson (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Chairman of the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. His net worth is $1.9 Billion. - Daniel Calhoun Roper
Daniel Calhoun Roper (April 1 1867 - April 11, 1943) was a U.S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in Marlboro County, South Carolina. His father, John Wesley Roper, was a leader of the Scotch Boys of the Confederate Army. Daniel Calhoun Roper graduated from Duke University (then called "Trinity College") in 1888, and received his bachelor of laws from National University in 1901. - Joshua W. Alexander
Joshua Willis Alexander (January 22 1852- February 27 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce from December 16, 1919 - March 4, 1921 in the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Ohio, but later moved to Missouri, where he engaged in local politics and business, eventually becoming a judge. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri from 1907 until his resignation to become commerce secretary in 1919. - Luther H. Hodges
Luther Hartwell Hodges (9 March 1898 - 6 October 1974) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1954 to 1961 and United States Secretary of Commerce from 1961 to 1965. He was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on March 9, 1898, and moved with his family to Spray (which later merged with two other towns to become Eden, NC) when he was two years old, living much of his life there in Rockingham County, North Carolina. - Charles Nagel
Charles Nagel (August 9, 1849 - January 5, 1940) was a United States politician and lawyer from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Colorado County, Texas to Dr. Hermann and Friedericke Litzmann Nagel, he served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883, was president of the St. Louis city council from 1893 to 1897 and was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1912. - C. R. Smith
Cyrus Rowlett Smith (September 9, 1899 - April 4, 1990), known throughout his life as C. R. Smith, was the CEO of American Airlines from 1934 to 1968 and from 1973 to 1974. He was also United States Secretary of Commerce for a brief period under President Lyndon B. Johnson. - Elliot Richardson
Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 - December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, having refused an order from Nixon to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. As of 2006, Richardson is the only individual to serve in four Cabinet-level positions within the United States government: Secretary of Health, Education, … - Robert P. Lamont
Robert Patterson Lamont (December 1, 1867 - February 20, 1948) was United States Secretary of Commerce March 5, 1929 to August 7, 1932 during the administration of Herbert Hoover. He was commerce secretary during difficult times for commerce, as a result of the Great Depression. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1867, educated at the University of Michigan. In 1916 Lamont constructed a retreat home in northern Wisconsin called Summerwind. - John Thomas Connor
John T. "Jack" Connor (November 3, 1914 - October 6,2000) was United States Secretary of Commerce from January 18, 1965 to January 31, 1967. Born in Syracuse, New York, John T Connor was a lawyer in New York who in 1942 became a researcher for the Office of Scientific Research and Development which helped to find cures for many diseases and illnesses. - Rogers Morton
Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (September 19, 1914 - April 19, 1979) was a U.S. Republican political figure. Morton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Yale University in 1937 where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Wolf's Head Society. During World War II, Morton served in the United States Army reaching the rank of captain. He was elected to the U.S. Congress, serving the 1st Congressional district of Maryland from 1963 - 1971, … - Philip Morris Klutznick
Philip Morris Klutznik was a U.S. administrator who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from January 9, 1980 to January 19, 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was the chief developer of the village of Park Forest, Illinois, a planned post World War II community in south Cook County, Illinois. Klutznick and his company American Community Builders (ABC) went on to work in partnership with Marshall Field's department stores, … - Frederick Henry Mueller
Frederick Henry Mueller was a U.S. administrator. He served as the Secretary of Commerce between 1959 and 1961. Mueller was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. - Charles W. Sawyer
Charles W. Sawyer (February 10, 1887 - April 7, 1979) was United States Secretary of Commerce from May 6, 1948 to January 20, 1953 in the administration of Harry Truman. Sawyer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served as a member of Cincinnati City Council from 1912-1916. Between the world wars, he was a prominent Democratic politician in Ohio. In the 1930s, a faction led by Sawyer vied with a faction led by Martin L. Davey for control of the state Democratic party. - Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (b. January 31, 1896, Charleston, West Virginia - d. January 21, 1974, Brandy Station, Virginia) was a wealthy businessman who took on a leadership role in the wartime navy, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral, and later became a U.S. administrator. He was the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission between 1953 and 1958. - Frederick B. Dent
Frederick Baily Dent (born August 17, 1922 in Cape May, New Jersey) served from 1943 until 1946 in the United States Navy. He was the United States Secretary of Commerce from February 2, 1973, to March 26, 1975. He currently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. - Maurice Stans
Maurice Hubert Stans (March 22, 1908 - April 14, 1998) was the finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President, working for the re-election of Richard Nixon. He was a peripheral figure in the ensuing Watergate Scandal. Money that he raised for the campaign was clearly used to finanace some of the illegal Watergate activities. However, Stans always maintained, and it has not been proven to the contrary, that he had no knowledge of the various Watergate crimes. - Under Secretary For Economic Affairs
The Under Secretary for Economic Affairs is a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Commerce. The Under Secretary serves as the principal economic adviser to the United States Secretary of Commerce. The Under Secretary is also the Administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration and oversees two statistical agencies - the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the United States Census Bureau - that gather, calculate, … - William C. Redfield
William Cox Redfield (June 18, 1858 - June 13, 1932) was a Democratic politician from New York. He served as the first United States Secretary of Commerce from 1913 to 1919 after the devision of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Previously, Redfield served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1911 to 1913 and was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the vice presidency in 1912. - Howard M. Baldrige Jr.
Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige (October 4, 1922 - July 25, 1987) was the 26th United States Secretary of Commerce. He was the son of H. Malcolm Baldrige, a Congressman from Nebraska, and the brother of Letitia Baldrige. Malcolm Baldrige was nominated to be Secretary of Commerce by President Ronald Reagan on December 11, 1980, and confirmed by the United States Senate on January 22, 1981. - Robert H. Clancy
Robert Henry Clancy (March 14, 1882-April 23, 1962) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Clancy was born in Detroit, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the literary department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1907 and he later studied law there for one year. He worked as a reporter on Detroit newspapers for four years before serving as secretary to Congressman Frank E. Doremus from 1911 to 1913. - Lewis Glucksman
Dr Lewis L. Glucksman was a former Lehman Brothers trader and former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. Glucksman was born into a second generation Hungarian-Jewish family that lived on the upper west side of Manhattan New York City. He served as a teenage volunteer with the US Navy in World War II. Glucksman graduated from the College of William and Mary and later earned a Master's degree in business administration from New York University.
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