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Carlos Gutierrez
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| Carlos Gutierrez | |
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| Assumed office February 7, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Donald Evans |
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| Born | November 4, 1953  Havana, Cuba |
| Political party | Republican |
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- This page is about the Cuban American executive Carlos M. Gutiérrez. See Carlos Gutiérrez for other people of the same name.
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez) (born November 4, 1953) is the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company.
Gutierrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner. Faced with the expropriation of their property following the Cuban Revolution, his family fled for the United States in 1960 when he was six years old. Like many other Cuban American refugees, they settled in Miami. Gutierrez learned his first words of English from the bellhop at the hotel where they initially stayed and, some years later, he and his family acquired United States citizenship.[1]
The family moved once again – this time to Mexico, where Gutiérrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's campus in Santiago de Querétaro. He joined Kellogg's in 1975 as a sales representative and management trainee. One of his early assignments included driving a delivery-truck route around local stores.
He rose through the management ranks, and in January 1990, he was promoted to corporate vice president of product development at the company's headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, and in July of the same year, he became executive vice president of Kellogg USA. In January 1999, he was elected to the company's Board of Directors and by April, he was appointed president and CEO.
On November 29, 2004, he was chosen by President George W. Bush to be his next term's Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. On the same day, Kellogg's Board of Directors accepted Gutierrez's resignation as Chairman of the Board and CEO, to be effective upon his confirmation by the Senate and swearing in. The board selected James M. Jenness to succeed Gutierrez as Chairman and CEO. It also elected Kellogg President and Chief Operating Officer A.D. David Mackay to the board. Gutierrez was confirmed on January 24, 2005 and sworn in on February 7, 2005.[2][3] He has a wife, Edilia, a son, Carlos Jr. and two daughters, Erika and Karina.
On 6 December 2007, Harper's Magazine contributor Scott Horton reported that Gutierrez displays Adnan Oktar's Atlas of Creation, a book that offers an Islamic version of creationism and blames Charles Darwin for modern terrorism–-including the 9/11 attacks, on a stand at the entrance to his US government office.[4]
- ^ Official biography at the Department of Commerce
- ^ Gutierrez Sworn In
- ^ Official White House announcement
- ^ New Theory Uncovered in Commerce Secretary Gutierrez’s waiting room: Darwin behind 9/11
| Preceded by Donald Evans |
United States Secretary of Commerce Served Under: George W. Bush 2005 – present |
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| Preceded by Dirk Kempthorne |
United States order of precedence as of 2007 |
Succeeded by Elaine Chao |
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| Secretaries of Commerce & Labor: Cortelyou • Metcalf • Straus • Nagel
Secretaries of Commerce: Redfield • Alexander • Hoover • Whiting • Lamont • Chapin • Roper • Hopkins • Jones • Wallace • Harriman • Sawyer • Weeks • Strauss • Mueller • Hodges • Connor • Trowbridge • Smith • Stans • Peterson • Dent • Morton • Richardson • Kreps • Klutznick • Baldrige • Verity • Mosbacher • Franklin • Brown • Kantor • Daley • Mineta • Evans • Gutierrez |
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| NAME | Gutierrez, Carlos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gutiérrez, Carlos Miguel |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | 35th United States Secretary of Commerce |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana, Cuba |
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Categories: 1953 births | Living people | American chief executives | Cuban-Americans | Cuban businesspeople | Cuban-American politicians | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni | Kellogg Company | Naturalized citizens of the United States | United States Secretaries of Commerce