Transcript President of the US

President of the U.S.
Barrack Obama
*Born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii
*Attended Columbia University then
Harvard Law
*Taught at University of Chicago Law
School
*2004 Obama was elected to the U.S.
Senate as a Democrat, representing
Illinois.
*2008 Ran for president vs. McCain
*January 20, 2009 became the 44th
president of the Unites States and the first
African-American ever elected to that
position.
Vice President of the U.S.
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
*Born November 20, 1942, in Scanton, Pennsylvania
*Attended Archmere Academy in Claymont, DE, catholic
prep school. Received Bachelor’s Degree from University
of DE in 1965 and a law degree from Syracuse University
in NY in 1968.
*Trial attorney at a law firm in Wilmington,DE serving as a
public defender. He turned to politics, serving on the New
Castle county council from 1970- 1972.
*Elected U.S. Senator, representing Delaware. 5th
youngest senator in office. Delaware's longest serving
senator.
*Biden played a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy
*January 20, 2009 elected Vice President of U.S.
Department of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton
*Born October 26, 1947, Park Ridge,
Illinois
*Undergraduate at Wellesley
College;1969 entered Yale Law School
where she met Bill Clinton.
*Joined the faculty of the University of
Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the
Rose Law Firm in 1976.
*1978 appointed Board of the Legal
Services Corporation
*1992 U.S. First Lady for 8 years
*2000 first lady senate of New York.
*2009 President Barack Obama's nominee
for Secretary of State.
Department of the Treasury
Secretary Timothy F. Geithner
*Born August 18, 1961, in New York
*Graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1983
with degrees in government and Asian
studies. Received a master's in international
economics and East Asian studies in 1985
from Johns Hopkins.
*Joined the Treasury Department as a
career staff official in 1988
*He was named President and CEO of the
New York Federal Reserve on November 20,
2003
* 2009 President Barack Obama's nominee
of Department of Treasury
Department of Defense
Secretary Robert M. Gates
*September 25, 1943 in Wichita, KS
*Attended Indiana University
*C.I.A hired Robert in 1966.
*He was an assistant to President George H.W.
Bush and Deputy National Security Adviser from
1989-91.
*1999-2002 he was Dean at the George Bush
School of Government and Public Service at
Texas A&M University.
*He became President of the Texas A&M in
2002
*November 2006 Gates was nominated to that
position by President George W. Bush.
Department of Justice
Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
*Born Jan. 21, 1951, Bronx, NY
*Graduated from Columbia University and
Columbia Law School.
*Worked for 12 years with the Justice
Department's Public Integrity section
*He served as a judge on the District of
Columbia Superior Court, a post to which he
was nominated by President Ronald
*He was appointed a United States attorney
and then deputy attorney general by
President Clinton.
*January 2009, President Barack Obama's
nominee of Department of Justice
Department of the Interior
Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar
*Born March 2, 1955, Alamosa, Colorado
*Colorado College, a Bachelor of Arts degree in
political science in 1977
*Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan's
law school in 1981
*1990 Romer appointed him to his cabinet as Director
of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources
*1998 elected state attorney general; reelected in
2002.
*2004, declared his candidacy the U.S. Senate seat
being vacated by retiring Republican Senator Ben
Nighthorse Campbell.
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee
of Department of the Interior.
Department of Agriculture
Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack
*Born December 12, 1950, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
*1972 received a bachelor's degree from
Hamilton College. In1975 received a law degree
from Albany Law School
*1987 elected mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
*1992 elected Iowa Senate.
*1998 Iowa's first Democratic governor in more
than 30 years, reelected 2nd term in 2002
*Created the Iowa Values Fund, an $800 million,
10-year program.
*January 2009, President Barack Obama's
nominee of Department of Agriculture
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Shaun L.S. Donovan
*Donovan earned undergraduate and post
graduate degrees from Harvard.
*Positions at FHA and HUD in the Clinton
administration prior to his current post as
Commissioner of the New York City
Department of Housing Preservation.
*2004 appointed commissioner of New York
City's HPD
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's
nominee of Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
Department of Commerce
Gary Faye Locke
*Born on January 21, 1950 in Seattle.
*Graduated Yale in 1972; Graduated from
Boston University with a law degree in 1975.
*1976-1980 Washington deputy prosecutor.
*1982-1993 Washington state legislator
*1994-1997 King County executive
*1997-2005 Washington Governor
*2005-present Davis Wright Tremaine Law
firm
* February 2009, President Barack Obama's
nominee of Department of Commerce.
Department of Labor
Secretary Hilda Solis
*Born on October 20, 1957, Los Angeles, California.
*1979 graduated from California State Polytechnic University;
She then earned a Master of Public Administration degree at
the University of Southern California in 1981.
*Elected to Congress in 2000 and represents a largely Hispanic
and Asian district of working-class suburbs east of Los Angeles
as well as part of East Los Angeles. She was a member of the
House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the House
Committee on Natural Resources and the new House Select
Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
*Solis has championed a bill, called the Employee Free Choice
Act, that is the No. 1 priority of organized labor because it would
make it far easier to unionize workers.
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of
Department of Labor.
Department of Transportation
Secretary Raymond L. LaHood
*Born on December 6, 1945 Peoria, Illinois.
*Graduated from Bradley University, earned a
degree in education and was a school teacher
before started politics.
*Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
for one term between 1982 and 1983
*Member of the Republican Main Street
Partnership.
*14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives
from the 18th District of Illinois (from 1995-2009).
*January 2009, President Barack Obama's
nominee of Department of Transportation.
Department of Energy
Secretary Steven Chu
*Born on February 28, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri
*He received his bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the
University of Rochester, and his doctorate degree from
University of California, Berkeley in 1976.
*He became a professor of physics at Stanford University
in 1987.
*2004, Chu was appointed as the director of Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
*Chu is a co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for
the "development of methods to cool and trap atoms with
laser light.”
*Member of the United States National Academy of
Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the American Philosophical Society and the Academia
Sinica.
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of
Department of Energy.
Department of Education
Secretary Arne Duncan
*Born November 6, 1964, Chicago, Illinois
*He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University with a degree in sociology in 1987.
*1992, became director of the Ariel Education
Initiative
*1998 he joined the Chicago Public Schools
*1999 Deputy Chief of Staff
*Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed Duncan to
serve as CEO of Chicago Public Schools on
June 26, 2001.
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's
nominee of Department of Education.
Department of Veterans Affairs
Secretary Eric Shinseki
*Born on November 28, 1942, Lihue, Hawaii
*graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1965 with a
Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a second
lieutenant. He earned a Master of Arts degree in English Literature
from Duke University. He was also educated at the Armor Officer
Advanced Course, the United States Army Command and General
Staff College, and the National War College.
*March 1994 to July 1995, Shinseki commanded the 1st Cavalry
Division at Fort Hood, Texas
*July 1996, he was promoted to lieutenant general and became
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, United States Army
*the Army's 28th Vice Chief of Staff on 24 November 1998
*34th Chief of Staff on June 22,1999.
*Retired June 11 2003 at the end of his four-year term. His
Farewell Memo contained some of his ideas regarding the future of
the military.
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department
Veteran Affairs.
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano
*Born on November 29,1957, New York City, NY.
*Graduated from Santa Clara University; She received her
Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School
of Law.
*In 1993, Napolitano was appointed by President Bill
Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of
Arizona.
*1998 became Arizona Attorney General.
*2002 Arizona's 3rd female governor. January *2006, she
won the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service.
*She served as NGA Chair from 2006 to 2007.
* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of
Department of Homeland Security.
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