Manuel Lujan, Jr.
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| 46th United States Secretary of the Interior | |
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In office February 3, 1989 – January 20, 1993 |
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| President | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Donald P. Hodel |
| Succeeded by | Bruce Babbitt |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico's 1st district |
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In office January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas G. Morris |
| Succeeded by | Steven Schiff |
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May 12, 1928 San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Lujan |
| Father | Manuel Lujan Sr. |
| Alma mater | College of Santa Fe |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Manuel Lujan Jr. (born May 12, 1928), is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of New Mexico who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1989 and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1993. He was a colleague of George Herbert Walker Bush in the House from 1969 to 1971. In 1989, President Bush named Lujan to his Cabinet.
He was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, into the prominent family of Manuel A. Lujan Sr. and Lorenzita (Romero) Lujan. His father served as mayor of Santa Fe and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor and Congress. Lujan attended Catholic schools in Santa Fe. He attended Saint Mary's College of California in 1946, and graduated from the St. Michael's College in Santa Fe in 1950.
After college, Lujan went to work for the family insurance company, the Manuel Lujan Agencies, which his father had opened in 1925. The Albuquerque-based company remains a leading risk management and insurance firm; in 2002, it was ranked as the most profitable of New Mexico’s Hispanic-owned businesses.
Lujan also followed his father into politics, launching his first campaign with a failed bid for the New Mexico State Senate in 1964. Three years later, he helped to found the Republican National Hispanic Assembly. Lujan's failed 1964 bid for political office was the last electoral defeat for him; after defeating incumbent Rep. Thomas G. Morris in 1968, he served in Congress for the next two decades.
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