Secretary of Transportation Speeches
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Slater, Rodney Earl, 1955-
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Rodney Earl Slater (born February 23, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician. He notably served as the United States Secretary of Transportation under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. Prior to being appointed to the Clinton Cabinet, Slater served as the administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 1993 to 1997. Born in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, he moved to Marianna, Arkansas as a small child. Slater attended segregated schools in Marianna until the eleventh gr...
Peña, Federico, 1947-
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Federico Fabian Peña (born March 15, 1947) is an American attorney and politician. He notably served as the first Hispanic mayor of Denver, Colorado and as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997 and United States Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 1998, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Born in Laredo, Texas, he attended Catholic schools in Brownsville, Texas before earning B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. After a short stint working as...
Card, Andrew, 1947-
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Andrew Hill Card Jr. (born May 10, 1947) is an American politician and academic administrator who was White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006, as well as head of Bush's White House Iraq Group. Card served as United States Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush from 1992 to 1993. Card announced his resignation as Chief of Staff on March 28, 2006, effective April 14, 2006. Card was the Acting Dean of the Bush School of Government and Pu...
Adams, Brock, 1927-2004
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Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Washington at Seattle, in 1949, and received a law degree from Harvard Law School, in 1952. Adams served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, and was admitted to the Washington state bar in 1952, opening a private practice in Seattle, Washington. He taught law at the American Institute of Banking from 1954 to 1960, and served as United States Attorney for the Western...
Goldschmidt, Neil E. (Neil Edward), 1940-
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Neil Edward Goldschmidt (born June 16, 1940) is an American businessman and politician from the state of Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Mayor of Portland, Oregon from 1973 to 1979, as U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 1979 to 1981, and as Governor of Oregon from 1987 to 1991. Once considered the most influential and powerful figure in Oregon's politics, his career and legacy were severely damaged by revelations that he had raped a young teenage girl in 1973, during hi...
Skinner, Samuel K., 1938-
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Samuel Knox Skinner (born June 10, 1938) is an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Prior to the Bush administration, Skinner served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President Gerald R. Ford from 1975 to 1977, succeeding James R. Thompson....
Lewis, Drew
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Drew Lewis was Secretary of Transportation and Haverford College Class of 1953. From the description of TLS, 1986 May 27 : Omaha, Nebraska to Edwin B. Bronner. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 17524822 ...
Coleman, William T. (William Thaddeus), 1920-2017
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William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (July 7, 1920 – March 31, 2017) was an American attorney and judge. Coleman was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975, to January 20, 1977, and the second African American to serve in the United States Cabinet. As an attorney, Coleman played a major role in significant civil rights cases. At the time of his death, Coleman was the oldest living former Cabinet member. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Germantown...
Brinegar, Claude S. (Claude Stout), 1926-2009
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Claude Stout Brinegar was born December 16, 1926, in Rockport, California. He received a Ph.D. in economic research from Stanford University. He was a senior vice president for refining and marketing at the Los Angeles-based Union Oil Company when, on December 1, 1972, he was nominated to be the nation's third Secretary of Transportation and served from February 2, 1973 to February 1, 1975. While Secretary, he confronted railroad revitalization and proposed regulatory reforms that the collapse o...
Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936-
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Mary Elizabeth "Liddy" Alexander Hanford Dole (born July 29, 1936) is an American politician and author who served in the Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations. She also served in the United States Senate from 2003 to 2009. A native of Salisbury, North Carolina and a graduate of Duke University, Harvard University, and Harvard Law School, Elizabeth Hanford moved to Washington, DC after earning her law degree, building a formidable resume over the fol...
Volpe, John A. (John Anthony), 1908-1994
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John (Gionne) Anthony Volpe was born December 8, 1908, in Wakefield, Massachusetts. His family-owned construction company built hospitals, schools, shopping centers, public buildings, including the Department of Transportation headquarters building and the Nassif Building, and military installations along the Eastern seaboard and in other parts of the country. In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower named the former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Works as the interim-but first--Federal Highwa...
Boyd, Alan S. (Alan Stephenson), 1922-
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Alan Stephenson Boyd (b. 1922) was a member and Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, from 1961 to 1965, Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation from 1965 to 1967, and Secretary of the Department of Transportation from 1967 to 1969. After leaving the Federal government, he served as an executive in the transportation industry. From the description of Boyd, Alan S. (Alan Stephenson), 1922- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10571988 ...
National Transportation Library (U.S. Department of Transportation)
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The National Transportation Library (NTL) maintains and facilitates access to information necessary for transportation decision-making in government and coordinates with public and private transportation libraries and information providers to improve information sharing among the transportation community. It is currently under the administration of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). NTL was created under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998. From 200...
