Lauro Cavazos

Lauro Fred Cavazos ( born January 4, 1927 in Kingsville, Kleberg County, Texas) is an American health scientist and former politician who served as Minister of Education of the United States from August 1988 to December 1990. He was the first Hispanic in the U.S. Cabinet.

Lauro Cavazos came on the King Ranch to the world, the largest ranch in the United States, on which his father was employed as a foreman. Shortly before the end of World War II, he joined still in the military; he returned to his short combat mission returned home and began studying at the Texas Agricultural and Industrial College, which later became Texas Tech University. Where he graduated in 1949 as Bachelor's and Master's degree in Zoology from 1951. He then moved to the Iowa State University and graduated in 1954 as a Ph.D. in physiology.

As a result, Cavazos was a member of the teaching staff of Tufts University and the Medical College of Virginia. From 1975 to 1980 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Tufts University, before returning to the Texas Tech University, as its president, he served from 1980 to 1988. He was both the first former student of the University and the first Hispanic in this office.

1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed him as successor to the retiring William Bennett in his cabinet. On this post Lauro Cavazos remained even after the end of Reagan's presidency the cabinet of George Bush. However, he had to resign his office in December 1990, after he was accused of abuse of frequent flyer miles.

After his resignation, he stepped back at the faculty of Tufts University, where he became professor of health science and general medicine.