Samuel Bodman
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| Samuel W. Bodman | |
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| Assumed office January 31, 2005 |
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| Under President | George W. Bush |
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| Preceded by | Spencer Abraham |
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| Born | 1938 Chicago, Illinois |
| Political party | Republican |
Samuel Wright Bodman III, Sc.D. (born 1938) is the United States Secretary of Energy and was previously Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department.
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[edit] Early life, career, and family
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Bodman passed his early years in Tallmadge, Ohio, before he graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity. In 1965, he completed his Sc.D. in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and began his work in the financial sector as Technical Director of the American Research and Development Corporation, a venture capital firm.
From there, Secretary Bodman went to Fidelity Venture Associates, a division of the Fidelity Investments. In 1983 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments and a Director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company with global business activities in specialty chemicals and materials, where he served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director. Cabot is one of the largest processors of coltan in the world, a driving force behind the Second Congo War, which has claimed more lives than any other conflict since World War 2. The UN Panel of Experts named Cabot Co. for conducting unethical business practices in the Congo. Cabot. Over the years, he has been a Director of many other publicly owned corporations.
Bodman is a former Director of M.I.T.'s School of Engineering Practice and a former member of the M.I.T. Commission on Education. He also served as a member of the Executive and Investment Committees at M.I.T., a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the New England Aquarium.
Samuel Bodman is married to M. Diane Bodman. He has three children, two stepchildren, and eight grandchildren.[1]
[edit] Bush Administration
Bodman served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the George W. Bush Administration beginning in February 2004. He also served the Bush Administration as the Deputy Secretary of Commerce beginning in 2001.
On December 10, 2004, Bodman was nominated to replace Spencer Abraham as the United States Secretary of Energy and was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on January 31, 2005, taking office the next day. He leads the Department of Energy with a budget in excess of $23 billion and over 100,000 federal and contractor employees.
On February 2, 2007, in response to the fourth IPCC report on global warming Bodman said "Even if we were successful in accomplishing some kind of debate and discussion about what caps might be here in the United States, we are a small contributor when you look at the rest of the world."[2] (In 2002, the United States contributed 24.3% of man-made CO2 emissions, the most of any country.)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Department of Energy biography. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ transcript of BBC World Service 2007-02-02
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[edit] General
[edit] Articles by Samuel Bodman
- World Energy Magazine - Meeting the Need for Affordable and Reliable Electricity
- World Energy Magazine - The New Energy Bill: Fueling America's Energy Security
- World Energy Magazine - The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: A Roadmap to Energy Security
- World Energy Magazine - Mutual Needs Fuel Cooperative Efforts Between the United States and Africa
| Preceded by Robert L. Mallett |
United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce 2001–2003 |
Succeeded by Theodore W. Kassinger |
| Preceded by Spencer Abraham |
United States Secretary of Energy Served Under: George W. Bush 2005 – present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Preceded by Mary Peters |
United States order of precedence as of 2007 |
Succeeded by Margaret Spellings |
| Preceded by Mary Peters |
United States Presidential Line of Succession 13th in line |
Succeeded by Margaret Spellings |
| United States Secretaries of Energy |  |
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| Schlesinger • Duncan • Edwards • Hodel • Herrington • Watkins • O'Leary • Peña • Richardson • Abraham • Bodman |
Bodman • Bolten • Chao • Cheney • Chertoff • Gates • Gonzales • Gutierrez • Jackson • Johanns • Johnson • Kempthorne • Leavitt • Nicholson • Paulson • Peters • Portman • Rice • Schwab • Spellings • Walters
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| NAME | Bodman, Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bodman III, Samuel Wright |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | 11th United States Secretary of Energy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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