QUESTIONS:
1. With his appointment of CSX head John Snow as secretary of the Treasury, President Bush continued the trend of naming corporate leaders to the office. Who was the last Treasury secretary to have held elective office?
2. Who was the last former Treasury secretary to later seek the presidency?
3. What two Treasury secretaries in the 20th Century went on to be secretary of state?
4. How many former Treasury secretaries are living?
5. Who was the last former Treasury secretary to have gone on to be a college president?
ANSWERS:
1. Lloyd Bentsen, secretary from 1992-94 and before that, U.S. senator from Texas.
2. John Connally, secretary from 1970-72.
3. George Shultz, secretary of State from 1981-88, and James Baker, secretary from 1989-92.
4. Nine. C. Douglas Dillon (secretary from 1961-64), Shultz (secretary from 1972-75), Michael Blumenthal (1976-79), G. William Miller (1979-80), Donald Reagan (1980-84), Baker (1984-88), Nicholas Brady (1988-92), Bentsen (1992-94), Robert Rubin (1994-1999), and Lawrence Summers (1999-2000).
5. Summers, who is now president of Harvard.
