Gordon R. England

Gordon R. England

Gordon Richard England (born September 15, 1937 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American businessman, politician and former Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States .

England studied electrical engineering at the University of Maryland and business administration at Texas Christian University . He began a career in the defense industry , working at Honeywell , General Dynamics and Lockheed , among others .

England was appointed Secretary of State for the Navy in May 2001 . His appointment to this position was controversial because of his long association with the defense industry. England moved to the Department of Homeland Security in January 2003 and became Deputy Minister . But in October of that year he returned to his old office, as his designated successor, Colin R. McMillan suicide had committed; in the meantime Susan Livingstone and then Hansford T. Johnson had provisionally headed the agency.

After Paul Wolfowitz moved to the World Bank , England was also nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense in May 2005 and was appointed to the post by George W. Bush in January during the Senate holiday season . In January 2006, he gave the post of Secretary of the Navy to Donald C. Winter . He held the post of Deputy Secretary of Defense for a few weeks after the end of Bush's tenure until he was replaced by William J. Lynn on February 11, 2009 .

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