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unusual facts about Secretary of Commerce



2004 world oil market chronology

June 4: U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce William H. Lash announces that Libya has sent its first shipment of crude oil to the United States since the resumption of ties between the two countries in recent months.

Cabinet reshuffle

On an individual basis, however, U.S. Cabinet members will occasionally change portfolios—for example, Norman Mineta previously served as Secretary of Commerce before becoming Secretary of Transportation.

Concord Coalition

A bipartisan organization, it was founded by U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, former Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson, and U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas.

George Edward Akerson

That work brought Akerson to the attention of Herbert Hoover, who was then the Secretary of Commerce.

Mary Burke

Burke is a former executive at Trek Bicycle Corporation, and she also served as the Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce.

William M. Roth

See photo of Roth at a 1967, U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference alongside US Secretary of Commerce Alexander B. Trowbridge; Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, and Under Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds.

William Ruder

In 1960, Ruder was appointed by John F. Kennedy as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and took a two-year leave of absence from the firm.

WSAZ-TV

Radio engineer Glenn Chase applied to the Secretary of Commerce for a license to operate a small radio station in Pomeroy, Ohio (it moved down and across the Ohio River to Huntington in 1927).


see also

Baldrige

Howard Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. (1922–1987), commonly referred to as Malcolm Baldrige or "Mac" Baldrige; United States Secretary of Commerce.

Carlos Gutiérrez

Carlos Gutierrez (born 1953), 35th United States Secretary of Commerce

Charles C. Carson

He also supervised the processing of the remains of victims in the NASA Challenger mission and Desert Storm as well as the air plane disaster that claimed the life of then Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

Charles Sawyer

Charles W. Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce during the administration of President Harry S. Truman; U.S. ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg

Cortelyou

George B. Cortelyou (1862–1940), first US Secretary of Commerce and Labor and later Secretary of the Treasury

Débora Giorgi

Giorgi left Alpha Economic Studies in 1999 to accept a prominent post as Secretary of Commerce (a sub-Cabinet level position) at the hand of newly elected President Fernando de la Rúa's first Economy Minister, José Luis Machinea.

Dudas

Jon Dudas, Former under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Jerry E. Patterson

In the 2002 Republican primary for Texas land commissioner, Patterson defeated Kenn George of Dallas, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 108 and an assistant secretary of commerce in the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan.

Jon Dudas

Jonathan W. Dudas served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) until January 18, 2009.

Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

USPTO Director David Kappos represented IBM, Marc Berejka (Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce) lobbied on behalf of Microsoft, and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, to whom the USPTO reported until Locke was made Ambassador to China on August 1, 2011, also has extensive ties to Microsoft.

Mosbacher

Robert Mosbacher (1927–2010), American businessman, United States Secretary of Commerce, yachtsman

Offshore drilling on the US Atlantic coast

A number of oil companies bought federal leases offshore North Carolina, but in 1990 the US Secretary of Commerce denied Mobil Oil permission to drill after Congress passed the North Carolina Outer Banks Protection Act, prohibiting leasing and drilling on federal seabed offshore from North Carolina.

Patrick D. Gallagher

He also serves as Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, a new position created in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on Jan. 4, 2011.

United States Maritime Administration

Andrew E. Gibson, Administrator and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, 1969-1972.