James D. Watkins
James David Watkins was a United States Navy admiral and former Chief of Naval Operations who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the George H. W. Bush administration, also chairing U.S. government commissions on HIVAIDS and ocean policy. Watkins also served on the boards of various companies and other nongovernmental organizations and as the cochair of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative.
Watkins was born March 7, 1927 in Alhambra, California. His grandfather George Clinton Ward was president of Southern California Edison during the 1930s. His father, Edward Francis Watkins, owned the Southern California Winery Co. His mother, Louise Watkins, unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Senate in 1938 he described his mother as a woman ahead of her time.
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