Representative John McHugh has been named the new civilian Army Secretary. He is a Republican Congressman from New York. Read a biography of him, see photos and a video below.
John McHugh
Today Barack Obama named John McHugh Secretary of the Army. He is replacing Army Secretary Pete Geren. Congressman Geren was a Democrat representative from Texas before he was tapped by President Bush to the civilian Army Secretary position. McHugh is the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. This move has effectively sidelined another senior Republican lawmaker.
The Army secretary oversees a $170 billion annual budget and a workforce of more than 1 million soldiers and more than a half-million civilian employees and contract workers.
McHugh has held New York’s 23rd Congressional District seat since his election in 1992. A Republican has held that seat since 1941. The upstate New York district includes Ft. Drum, home of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
Some are speculating that the democrats will launch a ferocious fight to get a democrat elected there.
John McHugh was born on September 29, 1948 and is from Pierrepont Manor in Jefferson County, New York. He attended public schools in Watertown, New York, graduating high school in 1996. He earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1970. He earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the State University’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Graduate School of Public Affairs in 1977.
He started his political career as a Confidential Assistant to the City Manager of Watertown in 1971. He then worked on the staff of New York State Senator H. Douglas Barclay. In 1984, McHugh succeeded Barclay and served four terms in that office before being elected to Congress in 1992. He was sworn into office in January 1993.
McHugh is divorced. His former wife is Katherine Sullivan.
John McHugh - Photos
John McHugh - Video
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
nice, but what i would really love to see is obama no longer president.