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President Bush chose Carlos Gutierrez to succeed Don Evans as secretary of Commerce in his second-term Cabinet. Gutierrez, whose family fled Cuba in 1960 when he was 6, joined Kellogg Co. in 1975 and was promoted to president and chief operating officer in 1998. Gutierrez is known as a charismatic and approachable executive, widely admired in business circles for reviving a flagging company. He studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Queretaro, Mexico.
Evans, President Bush's 2000 campaign chairman and close friend of more than three decades, resigned from his position as Commerce Secretary Nov. 9, 2004, saying he longed to return to Texas. Evans has been part of Mr. Bush's political career from the start: a fund-raiser for his losing congressional campaign in 1978 and chairman of his successful gubernatorial campaigns in 1994 and 1998. He raised more than $100 million for the 2000 campaign. His friendship with the president dates back to their days in the oil business in Midland, Texas, where they would attend church together and meet every day for a three-mile jog. Evans was CEO of Tom Brown Inc., an independent energy company, when Mr. Bush picked him to head Commerce.
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