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Line 1: − [[File:Elaine Chao official portrait.jpg|thumb|200px|Chao in 2017]]+ − [[Image:480px-Elaine Chao.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Chao as Secretary of Labor in the Bush II Administration]]+ − '''Elaine Chao''' (born March 26, 1953; an immigrant from Taiwan who arrived in America at age 8) is the 18th United States [[Secretary of Transportation]] under U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]. She was the [[Secretary of Labor]] in the cabinet of the [[Bush]] administration. She is the first Asian-American woman to be appointed to a U.S. Cabinet position. From 1996 to her appointment in 2001, she was a Distinguished Fellow at the [[Heritage Foundation]], and from 1992 to 1996, she was president of the United Way of America. She is married to Republican Senate majority leader [[Mitch McConnell]] of [[Kentucky]].+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + + + + + + + + + +
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{{Officeholder
|name=Elaine Chao
|image=Elaine Chao official portrait.jpg
|party=Republican
|spouse=[[Mitch McConnell]]
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/secretary (cabinet)
|of=Transportation
|number=18th
|president=[[Donald Trump]]
|terms=January 31, 2017 – present
|preceded=Anthony Foxx
|succeeded=
}}
{{Officeholder/secretary (cabinet)
|of=Labor
|number=24th
|president=[[George W. Bush]]
|terms=January 29, 2001 – January 20, 2009
|preceded=Alexis Herman
|succeeded=Hilda Solis
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=[[United States]] Deputy Secretary of Transportation
|terms=April 19, 1989 – October 8, 1991
|preceded=Mimi Weyforth Dawson
|former=y
|succeeded=James B. Busey IV
}}
}}
Chao is a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where she concentrates on jobs, employment, trade, federal spending and workforce issues. [https://www.heritage.org/about/staff/c/elaine-chao]
'''Elaine Lan Chao''' (born March 26, 1953; an immigrant from Taiwan who arrived in America at age 8) is the 18th United States [[Secretary of Transportation]] under U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]. She was the [[Secretary of Labor]] in the cabinet of the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] administration. Chao is the first Asian-American woman to be appointed to a U.S. Cabinet position.
[[Image:480px-Elaine Chao.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Chao as Secretary of Labor in the Bush II Administration]]
Chao was the president of the United Way of America from 1992 to 1996. In addition, from 1996 to 2001, Chao was a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where she concentrated on jobs, employment, trade, federal spending and workforce issues.<ref>[https://www.heritage.org/about/staff/c/elaine-chao Elaine Chao | The Heritage Foundation]</ref>
==Personal life==
Chao is married to current Republican [[Senate Majority Leader]] [[Mitch McConnell]] of [[Kentucky]].
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