Category:Melvin Laird

Melvin Laird
	American politician
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Date of birth	1 September 1922; Omaha
Date of death	16 November 2016; Fort Myers
Manner of death	natural causes;
Place of burial	Arlington National Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Carleton College;
Occupation	politician; military officer;
Member of political party	Republican Party;
Position held	United States representative; member of the State Senate of Wisconsin; United States Secretary of Defense (Clark Clifford, 21 January 1969, Elliot Richardson, 29 January 1973); Republican Conference Chairman of the United States House of Representatives (Gerald Ford, 3 January 1965, John B. Anderson, 3 January 1969);
Work location	Washington, D.C.;
Award received	Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Purple Heart; Presidential Medal of Freedom;
Authority control
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	Reasonator; Scholia; Statistics;

United States Secretaries of Defense
Forrestal • Johnson • Marshall • Lovett • Wilson • McElroy • Gates (Thomas) • McNamara • Clifford • Laird • Richardson • Schlesinger • Rumsfeld • Brown • Weinberger • Carlucci • Cheney • Aspin • Perry • Cohen • Rumsfeld • Gates (Robert) • Panetta