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James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014)

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James B. Edwards

American politician (1927–2014)

James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He later served as the U.S. secretary of energy under Ronald…
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United States Secretary of Energy

Head of the US Department of Energy

The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was created on October 1, 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed the…
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