Norman Mineta

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American politician (1931-2022)

United States PoliticiansLived 1931 to 2022 · aged 90

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S. Army officer who served as a Cabinet secretary in the administrations of President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican.

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Heart Mountain Relocation Center, the concentration camp near Cody, Wyoming where Mineta's family were incarcerated, along with 10,000 other American citizens of Japanese heritage.

San José International Airport now named after Mineta

Mineta in 2009

Awards 5

2007Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

2006Presidential Medal of Freedom

2006Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

1996NASA Distinguished Service Medal

L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation

Connected to Norman 6

Theodore von KármánAlso won Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

Charles BoldenAlso won Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

Herb KelleherAlso won L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation

Robert CrippenAlso won Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

Burt RutanAlso won Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

Giovanni BisignaniAlso won L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation

About this person

Norman Yoshio Mineta was an American politician and U.S. Army officer who served as a Cabinet secretary in the administrations of President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and was the highest-ranking Asian American in the federal executive branch in American history until the election of Kamala Harris as vice president in 2020.

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