What is Claude Brinegar?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Claude Brinegar |image = Claude S. Brinegar official photo.jpg |office = 3rd [[United States Secretary of Transportation]] |president = [[Richard Nixon]]<br>[[Gerald Ford]] |term_start = February 2, 1973 |term_end = February 1, 1975 |predecessor = [[John Volpe]] |successor = [[William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]] |birth_name = Claude Stout Brinegar |birth_date = {{birth date|1926|12|16}} |birth_place = [[Rockport, California]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2009|3|13|1926|12|16}} |death_place = [[Palo Alto, California]], [[United States|U.S.]] |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |education = [[Stanford University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}} |allegiance = {{flag|United States}} |branch = {{army|United States}} |serviceyears = 1945–1947 |unit = [[United States Army Air Forces]] }} '''Claude Stout Brinegar''' (December 16, 1926 – March 13, 2009) was an [[Americans|American]] politician. He was the third [[United States Secretary of Transportation]] serving from February 2, 1973 to February 1, 1975.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/bios.htm | title=Biographical Sketches of the Secretaries of Transportation | publisher=U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Historian | access-date=2006-06-07 | archive-date=2011-03-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316065145/http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/bios.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> Brinegar had previously been an oil company executive. Brinegar was Secretary of Transportation during the [[1973 oil crisis]]. In 1980-81, Brinegar was on [[Ronald Reagan]]'s transition team. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.ford.utexas.edu/LIBRARY/exhibits/cabinet/brinegar.htm White House press release, December 7, 1972.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715153312/http://www.ford.utexas.edu/libr