Samuel Bodman

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Samuel W. Bodman
11th United States Secretary of Energy
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 31, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Spencer Abraham
Born	1938 Chicago, Illinois
Political party	Republican

Samuel Wright Bodman III (born 1938) is the United States Secretary of Energy and was previously Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department.

Contents 1 Early life, career, and family 2 Bush Administration 3 Notes 4 External links 4.1 General 4.2 Articles by Samuel Bodman

[edit] Early life, career, and family

Born in Chicago, Illinois on November 26, 1938, Bodman passed his early years in the Chicago suburbs, before he graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and the Sphinx Head Society. In 1965, he completed his Sc.D. in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 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.

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.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Department of Energy biography. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.

[edit] External links

[edit] General

• Samuel Bodman's political donations

[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

v • d • e United States Secretaries of Energy Schlesinger • Duncan • Edwards • Hodel • Herrington • Watkins • O'Leary • Peña • Richardson • Abraham • Bodman

v • d • e Current members of the United States Cabinet Bodman · Boltenc · Bushc · Chao · Cheneyc · Chertoff · Gates · Gutierrez · Johnsonc · Kempthorne · Leavitt · Mukasey · Paulson · Peake · Peters · Preston · Nusslec · Rice · Schafer · Schwabc · Spellings · Waltersc (c) cabinet-level only, (a) acting

v • d • e Cabinet of President George W. Bush (2001 – 2009) Secretary of State Colin Powell (2001 – 2005) • Condoleezza Rice (2005 – present) Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill (2001 – 2002) • John Snow (2002 – 2006) • Henry Paulson (2006 – present) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001 – 2006) • Robert Gates (2006 – present) Attorney General John Ashcroft (2001 – 2005) • Alberto Gonzales (2005 – 2007) • Michael Mukasey (2007 – present) Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton (2001 – 2006) • Dirk Kempthorne (2006 – present) Secretary of the Agriculture Ann Veneman (2001 – 2005) • Mike Johanns (2005 – 2007) • Ed Schafer (2008 – present) Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans (2001 – 2005) • Carlos Gutierrez (2005 – present) Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao (2001 – present) Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson (2001 – 2005) • Mike Leavitt (2005 – present) Secretary of Education Rod Paige (2001 – 2005) • Margaret Spellings (2005 – Present) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez (2001 – 2003) • Alphonso Jackson (2003 – 2008) • Steve Preston (2008 – present) Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta (2001 – 2006) • Mary Peters (2006 – present) Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham (2001 – 2005) • Samuel Bodman (2005 – present) Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi (2001 – 2005) • Jim Nicholson (2005 – 2007) • James Peake (2007 – present) Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge (2003 – 2005) • Michael Chertoff (2005 – present) Chief of Staff Andrew Card (2001 – 2006) • Joshua Bolten (2006 – present) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Christine Todd Whitman (2001 – 2003) • Mike Leavitt (2003 – 2005) • Stephen Johnson (2005 – present) Trade Representative Robert Zoellick (2001 – 2005) • Rob Portman (2005 – 2006) • Susan Schwab (2006 - present)

Persondata
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
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH