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Ridge remained in the governor’s mansion until 2001, when President George W. Bush tapped him to become the first assistant to the President for homeland security. In 2002, President Bush nominated Thomas J. Ridge to become the first secretary of the newly created Department of Homeland Security. Tom Ridge assumed this position on January 24 ...
Jun 16, 2021 · Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who became the nation's first Secretary of Homeland Security after 9/11, is in critical condition in a Washington, D.C.-area hospital after suffering a stroke ...
Jun 17, 2021 · Tom Ridge, a former Republican governor of Pennsylvania and the first US secretary of Homeland Security, was transferred by ambulance to a hospital in the Washington area Wednesday morning after ...
Oct 8, 2001 · Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge www.dhs.gov. On October 8, 2001, Tom Ridge was sworn in as the first Office of Homeland Security Advisor in the history of the United States of America. In the words of President George W. Bush, he had the strength, experience, personal commitment and authority to accomplish this critical mission.
Jan 26, 2005 · The two-year-old Department of Homeland Security is losing its first secretary. Tom Ridge is leaving President Bush's cabinet on Feb. 1. While the department's security role has broadened during ...
Jan 24, 2003 · Under the leadership of Tom Ridge, more than 170,000 dedicated Americans, dedicated professionals, will have the overriding mission of protecting their fellow Americans. In October of 2001, when I established the office -- the White House Office of Homeland Security -- I knew immediately that Tom was the right man for the assignment.
Jan 23, 2003 · Senate unanimously confirms Tom Ridge as nation's first secretary of homeland security; Democrats and Republicans alike heap praise on Ridge even as they warn that his huge new department faces ...
