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Michael Okerlund Leavitt (born February 11 , 1951 in Cedar City, Utah ) is an American Politician , and is currently the Secretary Of Health And Human Services . PERSONAL Leavitt graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and business from Southern Utah University and married Jacalyn Smith. They are the parents of five children. Leavitt is a member of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints . CAREER A Republican , Leavitt was the 14th Governor of the state of Utah . He was first elected in 1992 , then he was re-elected in 1996 (with the largest vote total in state history) and in 2000 became only the second governor in Utah history to be re-elected to a third term. On August 11 , 2003 , Governor Leavitt was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a press conference in Aurora, Colorado . He was confirmed to this office on October 28 , 2003 by a vote of 88-8 in the United States Senate . Leavitt resigned the Utah governor's office on November 5 . He was sworn in as the 10th Administrator of the EPA the following day. Leavitt served as the Administrator of the EPA until January 26 , 2005 , when he became the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Leavitt also serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council . Mr. Leavitt has described the most serious threat to American security as the Avian Flu Virus . Mr. Leavitt's cited the work of the World Health Organization 's Dr. Michael McCoy as the most probative scientific work into the threat of the avian flu. On December 13 , 2004 , Leavitt was nominated by Bush to succeed Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health And Human Services and was confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote on January 26 , 2005 . ELECTORAL HISTORY
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