What is Rand Beers?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Rand Beers |image = Rand Beers official portrait.jpg |office = [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security]] |status = Acting |president = [[Barack Obama]] |deputy = [[Rafael Borras]] (acting) |term_start = September 6, 2013 |term_end = December 23, 2013 |predecessor = [[Janet Napolitano]] |successor = [[Jeh Johnson]] |office1 = [[United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security]] |status1 = Acting |president1 = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start1 = April 9, 2013 |term_end1 = September 6, 2013 |predecessor1 = [[Jane Holl Lute]] |successor1 = [[Rafael Borras]] (acting) |office2 = [[Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs]] |president2 = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start2 = June 19, 2009 |term_end2 = March 6, 2014 |predecessor2 = [[Robert D. Jamison|Robert Jamison]] |successor2 = [[Suzanne Spaulding]] |birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1942|11|30}}}} |birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |education = [[Dartmouth College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Michigan]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) }} '''Rand Beers''' (born November 30, 1942) is an American government official. He was Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the [[President of the United States]] during the [[Barack Obama]] administration.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/01/03/rand-beers-heads-to-white-house/</ref> He also was acting [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security]]<ref>https://www.dhs.gov/acting-secretary-rand-beers</ref> following the resignation of Secretary [[Janet Napolitano]] on September 6, 2013, until [[Jeh Johnson]] replaced her on December 23, 2013. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beers, Rand}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:United States Secretaries of Homeland Security]] [[Category:American military p