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Johanns, Mike

Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1991-98).

Governor of the State of Nebraska (1999-2005).

Chairman of Governors' Biotechnology Partnership and, as state government representative, was on the advisory committee to the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Sworn in as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in January 2005. (1)



Endnotes:

(1) U.S. White House biography at http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/johanns-bio.html , accessed March 13, 2005.