| 词条 | Mary E. Peters |
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|name = Mary Peters |image = Mary Peters official DOT portrait.jpg |office = 15th United States Secretary of Transportation |president = George W. Bush |term_start = October 17, 2006 |term_end = January 20, 2009 |predecessor = Norman Mineta |successor = Ray LaHood |office1 = Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration |president1 = George W. Bush |term_start1 = October 2, 2001 |term_end1 = July 29, 2005 |predecessor1 = Kenneth R. Wykle |successor1 = J. Richard Capka |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|12|4}} |birth_place = Peoria, Arizona, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |education = University of Phoenix {{small|(BA)}} }}Mary E. Peters (born December 4, 1948) served as the United States Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009. She was the second woman to hold the position after Elizabeth Dole.[1] Early life and educationPeters was born in Peoria, Arizona. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix and went to the John F. Kennedy School of Government.[2] When Peters was six, her parents divorced. Her father raised Mary and her three siblings in Phoenix, Arizona.[3] CareerPeters joined the Arizona Department of Transportation in 1985, and was appointed by Gov. Jane Dee Hull to serve as its director in 1998.[4] After George W. Bush took office as president in 2001, Peters left for Washington to work as the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration. She worked in that capacity until 2005.[4] In 2005, there was speculation that Peters would run for governor of Arizona in 2006. At the time, however, she said, while she believed she would have been a strong candidate, and was eligible to run despite having lived and registered to vote in Virginia, that questions about her eligibility would have been a distraction from the race.[5][6] She was also a speculated candidate for governor in 2010, but instead served as co-chair of incumbent governor Jan Brewer's election campaign (along with former state Attorney General Grant Woods). Peters is a transportation consultant for national engineering and planning organizations. Transportation SecretaryOn September 5, 2006, Bush nominated Peters to replace Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.[7] She was confirmed on September 29, 2006 by the United States Senate.[8][9] In 2006, President Bush appointed Peters as the Co-Vice Chairwoman of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.[10] She resigned the post of Secretary of Transportation in anticipation of the in-coming Obama administration. She was succeeded by Ray LaHood, the 16th U.S. Secretary of Transportation on Thursday, January 22, 2009. PoliciesPeters is an advocate of leasing U.S. roads and interstates to private companies and having user fees (i.e., tolls) for building new highways. In an interview, Peters said that the National Highway System will run out of money by decade's end without substantial changes and, rather than raise taxes, some states should turn to toll roads leased to private corporations to fill gaps.[11] Her policies of promoting open borders for commerce created opposition from labor unions.[12] Mary Peters held a press conference on September 5, 2008 to report that Highway Trust Fund payments to states, including her native Arizona, would be cut back because federal fuel tax collections were dropping. While she was Secretary of DOT a rule was passed stating that dogs, cats, miniature horses, pigs as well as monkeys could be considered emotional support animals, and therefore could be taken by commercial airlines in the cabin.[13] Personal lifeMary married Terry Peters, a marine, at age 17. She and Terry have three children together.[3] In 2013, Terry was convicted of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl, and he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison.[14][15] See also{{Portal|Biography}}
References1. ^"Biographical Sketches of the Secretaries of Transportation", U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Historian. Retrieved Feb 24, 2010. 2. ^[https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/mary-e-peters/ Iowa State University-Archives of Women's Political Communication-Mary E. Peters] 3. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4248233&page=1|title=Events, drive keep DOT chief in the spotlight|last=ABC News|first=|date=July 2, 2008|website=ABC News|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=May 11, 2018}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.dot.gov/bios/peters.htm |title="Mary E. Peters: SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION" |accessdate=2007-03-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220043903/http://www.dot.gov/bios/peters.htm |archivedate=December 20, 2008 |df= }}, United States Department of Transportation website. (archived 2008) 5. ^http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2005/09/26/daily59.html 6. ^http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645198978,00.html 7. ^[https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060905-5.html https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060905-5.html] 8. ^Official biography {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220043903/http://www.dot.gov/bios/peters.htm |date=2008-12-20 }} from the Department of Transportation 9. ^Confirmation of the U.S. Senate on September 29, 2006 10. ^https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090500514.html 11. ^Transportation secretary backs toll, lease options - Pennsyltucky Politics 12. ^http://www.teamster.org 13. ^http://www.gpo.gov/.../08-1228.pdf 14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/terry-peters-sex-abuse-child-jailed-mary-507880|title=Terry Peters, Husband of Ex-US Transport Secretary Mary Peters, Jailed for Sexually Abusing Girl|last=Porter|first=Tom|date=September 21, 2013|work=International Business Times UK|access-date=May 12, 2008|language=en}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/husband-u-s-transportation-secretary-sentenced-14-years-sexually-abusing-7-year-old-girl-article-1.1463233|title=Husband of former U.S. transportation secretary sentenced to 14 years for sexually abusing 7-year-old girl - NY Daily News|last=The Associated Press|first=|date=September 21, 2013|work=nydailynews.com|access-date=May 11, 2018|language=en-US}} External links{{commons|Mary Peters}}
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