Manuel Lujan Jr.

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Manuel Archibald Lujan Jr. (May 12, 1928 – April 25, 2019) was an American politician from New Mexico who served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from 1969 to 1989 and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1993.

He was a colleague of George H. W.

Bush in the House from 1969 to 1971.

In 1989, President Bush named Lujan to his Cabinet.

Early life and education

Lujan was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, into the 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.

Personal life

Lujan died of heart failure on April 25, 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Career

Lujan joined the Manuel Lujan Agencies, which his father founded in 1925, after college. The Albuquerque-based business is still a leading risk management and insurance company; in 2002, it was ranked as the most profitable of New Mexico's Hispanic-owned enterprises.

Lujan converted his father into politics, launching his first campaign in 1964 with a failed bid for the New Mexico State Senate. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly three years ago. Lujan's failed 1964 bid for political office was his last electoral loss for him; after defeating incumbent Rep. Thomas G. Morris in 1968, he served in Congress for the next two decades.

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