Pete Geren

Pete Geren
Official portrait, 2007
20th United States Secretary of the Army
In office
March 9, 2007 – September 21, 2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byFrancis J. Harvey
Succeeded byJohn M. McHugh
United States Under Secretary of the Army
In office
February 21, 2006 – July 23, 2007
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byRaymond F. DuBois
Succeeded byNelson M. Ford
Acting United States Secretary of the Air Force
In office
June 29, 2005 – November 4, 2005
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byMichael L. Dominguez
Succeeded byMichael Wynne
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 12th district
In office
September 12, 1989 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byJim Wright
Succeeded byKay Granger
Personal details
Born
Preston Murdoch Geren III

(1952-01-29) January 29, 1952 (age 72)
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBeckie Ray
Children3
RelativesPreston Geren Sr. (grandfather)
Preston Geren Jr. (father)
Charlie Geren (brother)
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (BA, JD)
[1]
Army Secretary Pete Geren (far left), accompanied by (from left to right) his wife, Beckie, his children, Mrs. Shelia Casey and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr., during Mr. Geren's arrival ceremony as Secretary of the Army, Aug. 30, 2007.
Secretary of the Army Pete Geren and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty welcome home Minnesota National Guard Soldiers deployed with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division for the past 17 months at Volk Field, Wis., July 17.

Preston "Pete" Murdoch Geren III[2] (born January 29, 1952) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16, 2007, to September 16, 2009. He is a Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 12th congressional district. He is the president of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas[3] and is a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia.

  1. ^ "Pete Geren." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. Document Number: K2013035006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed May 11, 2009.
  2. ^ "- Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, First Session, 110Th Congress".
  3. ^ Leadership in the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, Official website, accessed January 8, 2012