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Cavazos, Lauro

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Personal name headingCavazos, Lauro
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedLubbock (Tex.) Ames (Iowa) Charlottesville (Va.) Medford (Mass.)
Birth date1927-01-04
Death date2022-03-15
Place of birthTexas
AffiliationTexas Technological College, Lubbock
Iowa State University
Medical College of Virginia
Tufts University. School of Medicine
Texas Technological College, Lubbock
Profession or occupationCollege teachers College administrators
Found inU.S. Cong. Senate. Comm. on Labor and Human Resources. Nomination, 1988: t.p. (Lauro Cavazos, of Texas to be Secretary, Dept. of Education)
Choice in education, 1989: t.p. (Lauro F. Cavazos, U.S. Secretary of Education)
A Kineño remembers, 2006: CIP t.p. (Lauro F. Cavazos) data view (b. Jan. 4, 1927)
Meier, Matt S. Mexican American biographies, 1988: pages 48-49 (Lauro F. Cavazos, Jr., born January 4, 1927 on the King Ranch in Texas, where his father was employed. Graduated from the Texas Technological University in Lubbock in 1949, then from Iowa State University with his PhD in 1954.Taught at the Medical College of Virginia at Charlottesville 1954-1964, then at Tufts University School of Medicine in Medford, Mass. where he later became associate dean then dean. Then accepted appointment as president of Texas Technological University in 1980.)
The chronicle of higher education, Apr. 1, 2022: page 55 (Lauro Cavazos; died Mar. 15, 2022; former president of Texas Tech University and U.S. secretary of education, 1988-1990)
Associated languageeng