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3 unusual facts about Terrel Bell


Terrel Bell

Terrel Howard Bell (November 11, 1921 – June 22, 1996) was the Secretary of Education in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan.

Bell stood out as a humble man in an administration of moneyed people—he drove a U-Haul truck from Utah to Washington when he moved, probably the only member of the Reagan cabinet to do so.

Winston Wilkinson

During the 1980s Wilkinson served as special assistant to Secretary of Education Terrel Bell and then as deputy secretary in the Office of Civil Rights in the George H. W. Bush administration.



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