[DOC] [TLE] Tom Ridge - Wikipedia [PAR] Thomas Joseph "Tom" Ridge (born August 26, 1945) is an American politician 
who served as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 
2003, and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security .... Ridge 
formally resigned as Pennsylvania's governor on October 5, 2001. In January 
2003 and... [DOC] [TLE] Connected to The New Office of Homeland Security [PAR] On October 8, 2001, Tom Ridge was sworn in as the first Office of Homeland ... 
Governor Ridge's aggressive technology strategy helped fuel the state's ... The 
Governor Ridge cut taxes every year he was in office. ... Head of Intelligence unit 
of Dept for Homeland Security ..... Crime is down and student achievement is up. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about AMERICAN GOV'T - StudyStack [PAR] IN 2001 HE RESIGNED AS A STATE GOVERNOR TO HEAD UP THE NEW 
OFFICE OF ..... ESTABLISHED IN 2001 IN RESPONSE TO 9/11, HOMELAND 
SECURITY .... EXECUTIVE OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR NEGOTIATING TRADE 
WITH... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Joseph Ridge facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ... [PAR] Ridge was in the middle of his second term as governor of Pennsylvania, but ... 
secretary of the new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security in 2002. .... 
was announced and Ridge said he would resign as governor on October 5, 2001
, he ... The job of the Office of Homeland Security will be to identify those gaps 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Homeland Security Chief Ridge Resigns - Rense.com [PAR] WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, who ... 
as governor of Pennsylvania in October 2001 to become Bush's homeland 
security adviser. He was later named to head up the new Homeland Security 
department. ... State and local governments complained that each increase to 
orange... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas J. Ridge, Homeland Security Secretary 2003 - 2005 ... [PAR] May 16, 2016 ... Biography of Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of the Department of Homeland 
Security. ... Ridge was twice elected Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 
1995 to 2001. He kept his promise to make Pennsylvania "a leader among states 
... the state's advances in the priority areas of economic development,... [DOC] [TLE] Department of Homeland Security - AllGov - Departments [PAR] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for ensuring the 
safety ... 11, 2001, prompted federal officials to examine how such an attack was 
... Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, former Republican governor of ..... 
to round up Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters after the next 9/11
. [DOC] [TLE] Tuning Up The Second Fiddle - NYTimes.com - The New York Times [PAR] Jan 2, 2005 ... He (or, often, she) is the Rodney Dangerfield of politics. ... a lieutenant governor 
would succeed the governor, could head any state department or agency except 
the ... Protection Agency in 2001; and Mr. McGreevey resigned after admitting to 
an extramarital affair with his former homeland security adviser. [DOC] [TLE] Ex-cop, governor to join Bush team | Deseret News [PAR] Dec 3, 2004 ... Agriculture and Homeland Security chiefs are named ... of Agriculture and former 
New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to head up the Department of 
Homeland Security after their predecessors resigned. ... He had been mentioned 
as a candidate for secretary of state, a job Bush gave to... [DOC] [TLE] Tom Ridge Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline [PAR] Under his tenure from 1995 to 2001, Pennsylvania thrived as a state fueled by a 
high rate of economic and infrastructural ... The then President George W. Bush 
created the Office of Homeland Security after the September 11, 2001 terror 
attacks and made Ridge the head. He resigned as the governor to take up this 
post. [DOC] [TLE] The Executive Branch | whitehouse.gov [PAR] The President is both the head of state and head of government of the United ... 
in any way he or she chooses, Presidents have traditionally given a State of the 
.... largest Cabinet department, DHS was established by the Homeland Security 
Act of ... The new department consolidated 22 executive branch agencies, 
including... [DOC]

Question: In 2001 he resigned as a state governor to head up the new Office of Homeland Security
Answer: Tom Ridge