Claude Brinegar

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Claude Stout Brinegar
3rd United States Secretary of Transportation
In office February 2, 1973 – February 1, 1975
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	John A. Volpe
Succeeded by	William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
Born	December 16, 1926 (1926-12-16) (age 81)

Claude Stout Brinegar (born December 16, 1926) 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 executive. Brinegar was Secretary of Transportation during the 1973 oil crisis.

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 the Union Oil Company (later called Unocal Corporation). In 1980-81 Brinegar was on Ronald Reagan's transition team.

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Biographical Sketches of the Secretaries of Transportation. U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Historian. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.

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Preceded by John Anthony Volpe

United States Secretary of Transportation 1973 – 1975

Succeeded by William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.

v • d • e United States Secretaries of Transportation Boyd • Volpe • Brinegar • Coleman • Adams • Goldschmidt • Lewis • Dole • Burnley • Skinner • Card • Peña • Slater • Mineta • Peters

v • d • e Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Vice President Vacant (1974), Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (1974–1977) Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon (1974–1977) Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger (1974–1975) • Donald Rumsfeld (1975–1977) Attorney General William Saxbe (1974-1975) • Edward Levi (1975-1977) Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton (1974–1975) • Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) • Thomas S. Kleppe (1975-1977) Secretary of the Agriculture Earl Butz (1974–1976) • John Albert Knebel (1976-1977) Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent (1974–1975) • Rogers Morton (1975) • Elliot Richardson (1975-1977) Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan (1974–1975) • John Thomas Dunlop (1975–1976) • William Usery, Jr. (1976-1977) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Caspar Weinberger (1974-1975) • F. David Mathews (1975-1977) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development James Thomas Lynn (1974-1975) • Carla Anderson Hills (1975–1977) Secretary of Transportation Claude Brinegar (1974–1975) • William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (1975–1977)