Louis Wade Sullivan

Louis Wade Sullivan

Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is a former American politician . He belonged to the cabinet of President George Bush as health minister to.

Life

Shortly after he was born, his parents moved him to Early County, Georgia, where he grew up in the small town of Blakely . His father Walter Wade Sullivan worked as an undertaker , his mother Lubirda Elizabeth Priester took care of the upbringing of Louis and his brother Walter as a housewife. To improve their future prospects, their parents sent the brothers to relatives in Atlanta, where he graduated from Morehouse College , which is mostly attended by African-Americans . In 1954 he closed it with summa cum laude , and then moved to Boston ( Massachusetts ), where he medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine studied. In 1975 he founded the Morehouse School of Medicine at Morehouse College , whose first dean he was from 1981 to 1999.

In 1989, Sullivan became the United States Secretary of Health in the Bush Cabinet . He remained so until the end of Bush's tenure in January 1993. He was one of the few Republican politicians to campaign for comprehensive health care reform . Today he is also one of the few supporters of his party who campaign for a statutory health insurance company .

After he resigned from his role as Minister of Health, Sullivan sat on numerous boards, including between 1993 and 2000 on the Board of General Motors . In September 1955 he married the lawyer Eve Williamson, with whom he is still married to this day, and with whom he has three children.

In 1994, Sullivan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Commons : Louis Wade Sullivan  - Collection of Images

• Louis Wade Sullivan in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)