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Samuel W. Bodman, energy secretary under George W. Bush, dies at 79

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September 8, 2018 at 7:02 p.m. EDT
Samuel W. Bodman in 2006. (PAUL SANCYA/AP)

Samuel W. Bodman, a onetime venture capitalist and business executive who served as energy secretary during the second term of President George W. Bush and who was a deputy secretary in two other Cabinet departments, died Sept. 7 at his home in El Paso. He was 79.

The cause was primary progressive aphasia, a neurological disorder, Bush said in a statement.