Samuel Bodman

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Samuel W. Bodman


order=11th
title=United States Secretary of Energy
term_start=January 31, 2005
term_end=
president=George W. Bush
predecessor=Spencer Abraham
successor=
birth_date=1938
birth_place=Chicago, Illinois
death_date=
death_place=
party=Republican

Samuel Wright Bodman III (born November 26, 1938) is the United States Secretary of Energy and was previously Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department.

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. [cite web
title = Department of Energy biography
url=http://www.energy.gov/organization/samuel_bodman.htm
accessdate = 2007-02-02 ]

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.

Notes

External links

General

* [http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Sam_Bodman.php Samuel Bodman's political donations]

Articles by Samuel Bodman

* [http://www.worldenergysource.com/articles/text/bodman_WE_v9n2.cfm World Energy Magazine - Meeting the Need for Affordable and Reliable Electricity]
* [http://www.worldenergysource.com/articles/text/bodman_WE_v8n3.cfm World Energy Magazine - The New Energy Bill: Fueling America's Energy Security]
* [http://www.worldenergysource.com/articles/text/bodman_WE_v9n1.cfm World Energy Magazine - The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: A Roadmap to Energy Security]
* [http://www.worldenergysource.com/articles/text/bodman_WE_v8n4.cfm World Energy Magazine - Mutual Needs Fuel Cooperative Efforts Between the United States and Africa]

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before=Robert L. Mallett
title=United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce
years=2001–2003
after=Theodore W. Kassinger
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before= Spencer Abraham
after= Incumbent
start= 2005
president= George W. Bush
department= Secretary of Energysuccession box| title=United States Presidential Line of Succession | before=Mary Peters | after=Margaret Spellings | years=13th in line

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=
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