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| Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi |
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Contact Information
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Web Site:
www.va.gov
E-mail:
consumeraffairs@mail.va.gov
Phone:
(202) 273-5771
Fax:
(202) 273-5716
Address:
Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20420
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Background Information
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Party:
Republican
Marital Status:
married
Prev. Occupation:
U.S. naval officer
Prev. Political Exp.:
United States Navy, 1967-80; Deputy Administrator, Veterans Administration, 1983-84; Staff Director, U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, 1984-86; Republican Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, 1984-88; First Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 1989-92; Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 1992-93; President, QTC Medical Services, Inc.
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Additional Information
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A combat-decorated Vietnam veteran, Anothony Principi is a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and first saw active duty aboard the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy. He later commanded a River Patrol Unit in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
Principi earned a law degree from Seton Hall University in 1975 and was assigned to the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps in San Diego, California. In 1980, he was transferred to Washington as a legislative counsel for the Department of the Navy.
From 1984 to 1988, Principi served as Republican chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. He was the Veterans Administration's assistant deputy administrator for congressional and public affairs from 1983 to 1984, following three years as counsel to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Principi served as Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA's second-highest executive position, from March 17, 1989, to September 26, 1992, when he was named Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs by President George Bush. He served in that position until January 1993. He then served as Republican chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
Principi chaired the Federal Quality Institute in 1991 and was chairman of the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance established by Congress in 1996.
He was sworn in as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on January 23, 2001.
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