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Four-star General Lloyd J. Austin

General Austin is the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of Defense. He was nominated by President Joseph Biden and confirmed by the United States Senate. A former four-star General in the U.S. Army, Austin was born in Mobile, Alabama on August 8, 1953, but grew up in a farming community in Thomasville, Georgia.

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