Claude Brinegar
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Claude Stout Brinegar | |
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| 3rd United States Secretary of Transportation | |
| In office February 2, 1973 – February 1, 1975 | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | John A. Volpe |
| Succeeded by | William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. |
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| Born | December 16, 1926 Rockport, California |
| Died | March 13, 2009 (aged 82) Palo Alto, California |
| Resting place | small |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University |
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| Branch/service | United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1945-1947 |
Claude Stout Brinegar (December 16, 1926 – March 13, 2009) was the third United States Secretary of Transportation, serving from February 2, 1973 to February 1, 1975. Holding a Ph.D from Stanford in economic research, Brinegar had previously been an oil company executive. Brinegar was Secretary of Transportation during the 1973 oil crisis.
Brinegar was born in Rockport, California, the son of Lyle and Claude Brinegar. He served in the U.S. Air Force, 1945-47, then attended Stanford University where he received a B.A. in Economics with Great Distinction (1950), an M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics (1951), and a Ph.D. in economic research (1953). He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While pursuing his Ph.D., Mr. Brinegar was a Research Assistant with the Food Research Institute in Stanford, California, and an Economic Consultant to the Emporium-Capwell Corporation in San Francisco, California.
Brinegar joined the Union Oil Company (later called Unocal Corporation) in 1953 as an Economic Analyst and held several positions in economics, planning and research until 1965, when he was elected Vice President for Corporate Planning. In October 1965, after Union Oil and the Pure Oil Company merged, he was appointed President of Pure Oil and remained in that position when Pure became Union 76. He was also elected Senior Vice President of the firm and a member of Union Oil's Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
Nominated to the post by Richard Nixon, he also served under Gerald Ford but when Ford said he intended to seek the Presidency, Brinegar resigned and returned to an executive position at Union Oil. In 1980-81 Brinegar was on Ronald Reagan's transition team.
References
"Biographical Sketches of the Secretaries of Transportation". U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2006-06-07.
External links
- White House press release, December 7, 1972., Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
- Brinegar, Claude Stout Sobel, Robert (1990). Biographical directory of the United States executive branch, 1774–1989. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26593-3.. (via Google Books
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