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Norman Yoshio Mineta [1] ( Japanese: 峯田 良雄, November 12, 1931 – May 3, 2022) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta served in the United States Cabinet for Presidents Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican . Mineta was the mayor of San Jose from 1971 until 1975.
May 13, 2024 · Norman Mineta (born November 12, 1931, San Jose, California, U.S.—died May 3, 2022, Edgewater, Maryland) had a long career in government, serving as a mayor of San Jose, California, and then as a U.S. congressman for nearly 21 years. In 2000 he became the first Asian American in a presidential cabinet.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 3, 2022 · Born on Nov. 12, 1931, Norman Yoshio Mineta was 10 and wearing his Cub Scouts uniform when he and his parents were sent to the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming after Japan attacked...
May 4, 2022 · Norman Mineta, the first Asian American Cabinet secretary and a longtime California congressman who fought for recognition and reparations for Japanese Americans imprisoned by...
May 3, 2022 · Norman Y. Mineta, who as a boy was interned with his family and thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II, then rose in government to become a 10-term Democratic congressman...
Norman Y. Mineta is the longest serving Secretary in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation, becoming the 14th Secretary of Transportation on January 25, 2001. He was also the first Asian-American Cabinet member during the Clinton administration, and the first Cabinet member to switch directly from a Democratic to a Republican ...
May 3, 2022 · 10 min. Norman Y. Mineta, a son of Japanese immigrants who was held in an internment camp during World War II and later became one of the country’s highest-profile Asian...
