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WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (KUNA) -- Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Agriculture, Trump transition officials announced on Thursday.
Perdue, 70, served on Trump's agricultural advisory committee during the presidential campaign. The announcement marks the completion of Trump's proposed cabinet a day before he takes the oath of office as the nation's 45th president.
Perdue, a veterinarian who served as a Georgia state senator for 10 years, in 2003 became the first Republican governor of Georgia since the Reconstruction period that followed the US Civil War in the 1860s.
Perdue's first cousin, David Perdue, is a US senator from Georgia who sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee. (end)
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