Betsy DeVos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Betsy DeVos

11th United States Secretary of Education

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1958

Place of Birth: Holland, Michigan, United States

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About Betsy DeVos

  • Elisabeth Dee DeVos (; née Prince; born January 8, 1958) is the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education since 2017.
  • DeVos is a Republican known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools.
  • She was Republican National Committeewoman for Michigan from 1992 to 1997 and served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000, with reelection to the post in 2003.
  • She has advocated for the Detroit charter school system, and is a former member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
  • She has served as chair of the board of the Alliance for School Choice and the Acton Institute and headed the All Children Matter PAC.DeVos is married to Dick DeVos, the former CEO of the multi-level marketing company Amway, and is the daughter-in-law of Amway's billionaire co-founder, Richard DeVos.
  • Her brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S.
  • Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA.
  • Their father is Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation.
  • In 2016, the DeVos family was listed by Forbes as the 88th-richest in America, with an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion.On November 23, 2016, then-President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education in his administration.
  • On January 31, following strong opposition to the nomination from Democrats, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved her nomination on a party-line vote, sending her nomination to the Senate floor.
  • On February 7, 2017, she was confirmed by the Senate by a 51–50 margin, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie in favor of her nomination.
  • This was the first time in U.S.
  • history that a cabinet nominee's confirmation was decided by the Vice President's tiebreaking vote.

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