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| Name | Andrew Lindsay "Drew" Lewis Jr. |
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, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 03, 1931
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| Died | February 10, 2016
(84 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | Possessing a unique combination of business and political experience, Drew Lewis, at age forty-nine, met Ronald Reagan's standards to be the nation's seventh Secretary of Transportation. He received a B.S. in economics at Haverford College in 1953, and an M.B.A. in 1955 from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Moving up the corporate ladder at American Olean Tile, and its parent company, National Gypsum, Lewis set up his own consulting firm and concentrated on turning around faltering businesses. Simultaneously, he served in several political capacities: county committee member, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party's finance committee, GOP candidate for Governor in 1974, chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the 1976 GOP convention, and Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee. While Lewis was Secretary, Congress transferred the Maritime Administration to DOT from the Department of Commerce. During the strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization in 1981, Lewis worked with the FAA to keep the air transport system running safely, and later to craft the National Airspace System Plan, a blueprint for modernizing the nation's airspace system. Before leaving for private industry in February 1983, Lewis secured passage of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982--and the user fees to finance it. Lewis is currently chairman of Union Pacific Corporation, and serves on the Board of Directors of Gannett.
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