Spencer Abraham

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Spencer Abraham
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Official portrait, 2001
10th United States Secretary of Energy
In office
January 20, 2001 January 31, 2005

Committee service and legislation

Abraham served on the Budget, Commerce, Science and Transportation, Judiciary, and Small Business Committees. He also chaired two subcommittees: Manufacturing and Competitiveness, and Immigration. Abraham authored the H1B Visa in Global and National Commerce Act, establishing a federal framework for online contracts and signatures; the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, and the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which protects Internet domain names for businesses and persons against copyright and trademark infringements. In 1999, Abraham co-sponsored S.896, a bill to abolish the U.S. Department of Energy, which would have transferred control of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in large part to the Defense Department. [12]

U.S. Energy Secretary

Abraham working as the Secretary of Energy near Yucca Mountain Kenny Guinn and Spencer Abraham.jpg
Abraham working as the Secretary of Energy near Yucca Mountain

In 2001 George W. Bush appointed Abraham Secretary of Energy. On November 15, 2004, Abraham announced that he would resign from this position, effective with the swearing-in of his successor, Samuel W. Bodman, on February 1, 2005.

In 2004, Lebanese Ambassador Farid Abboud awarded Abraham the National Order of the Cedar. [13]

Hoover Institution

From 2005 to 2007, Abraham was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University. After leaving office, he opened The Abraham Group, [14] a Washington DC-based international strategic consulting firm, of which he is chairman and CEO. [15] [16]

Fred Thompson presidential campaign

On July 24, 2007, Abraham was announced as an "ambassador to official Washington" for Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign. [17]

Later career

In 2006 Abraham was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of AREVA Inc., the American arm of the French nuclear company Areva, which is planning to build EPR nuclear power plants in the United States and is building the mixed oxide fuel (MOX) manufacturing plant at the Savannah River Site to convert legacy weapons-grade plutonium into power station fuel. [18] [15]

With William Tucker, Abraham wrote Lights Out!: Ten Myths About (and Real Solutions to) America's Energy Crisis (2010).

In 2016, Abraham was elected to the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology. [19]

Electoral history

Michigan U.S. Senate Election 2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Debbie Stabenow 2,061,952 49.5
Republican Spencer Abraham (Incumbent)1,994,69347.9
Michigan U.S. Senate Election 1994
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Spencer Abraham 1,577,865 52
Democratic Bob Carr 1,298,72643
Libertarian Jon Coon 127,7834

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Party political offices
Preceded by Chair of the Michigan Republican Party
1983–1991
Succeeded by
Preceded by Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Michigan
(Class 1)

1994, 2000
Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Michigan
1995–2001
Served alongside: Carl Levin
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by United States Secretary of Energy
2001–2005
Succeeded by
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded byas Former US Cabinet Member Order of precedence of the United States
as Former US Cabinet Member
Succeeded byas Former US Cabinet Member