Manuel Lujan, Jr.


Manuel Lujan, Jr. , is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of New Mexico who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1989 and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1993. He was a colleague of George Herbert Walker Bush in the House from 1969 to 1971. In 1989, President Bush named Lujan to his Cabinet.

He was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, into the prominent family of Manuel A. Lujan, Sr. and Lorenzita Lujan. His father served as mayor of Santa Fe and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor and Congress. Lujan attended Catholic schools in Santa Fe. He attended Saint Marys College of California in 1946, and graduated from the St. Michaels College in Santa Fe in 1950.

Source: Wikipedia


RELATED SEARCHES