Question: From what state was the congressman who became Secretary of Defense and reportedly refused to promote Les Brownlee to Secretary of the Army because he was not a CEO?

<P0-S0> Jacob Dolson Cox, (Jr.) (October 27, 1828August 4, 1900) was a statesman, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later a Republican politician from Ohio. <P0-S1>  In 1872 Cox joined the Liberal Republicans in opposition to Grant's renomination. <P0-S2>  Cox retired and did not return to active politics, using his time to write several books on Civil War campaigns which remain today respected histories and memoirs. <P0-S3>  When Ulysses S. Grant became President he nominated Cox Secretary of Interior and Cox immediately accepted. <P0-S4>  President Grant and Secretary Cox were at odds over the fraudulent McGarahan Claims and the Dominican Republic annexation treaty. <P0-S5>  Secretary Cox advocated a lasting, honest, and comprehensive Indian policy legislated by Congress after the Piegan Indian massacre. <P0-S6>  As Governor of Ohio, Cox sided for a time with President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan and was against African American suffrage in the South, though he supported it in Ohio. <P0-S7>  Grant initially supported Cox and civil service reform, creating America's first Civil Service Commission. <P0-S8>  But Johnson declined. <P0-S9>  Congressman Cox supported President Hayes's reform efforts, but his term as Congressman was unsuccessful at establishing permanent Civil Service reform. <P0-S10>  In 1876 Cox returned to politics and was elected to and served one term as United States Congressman of Ohio. <P0-S11>  Although Cox was a reformer, Grant had believed Cox had overstepped his authority as Secretary of Interior and had undermined his authority as President. <P0-S12>  He served as the 28th Governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior. <P0-S13>  Seeing himself caught between Johnson and the Radical Republicans, Cox decided not to run for reelection. <P0-S14>  Secretary of Interior Cox implemented the first civil service reform in a federal government department, including examinations for most clerks. <SEP> <P1-S0> Edward Malcolm Brownlee is an American sculptor who is known for his modernist architectural creations. <P1-S1>  "Mick" Brownlee was born in Portland, Oregon, on April 23, 1929, and grew up there on the west side in a dilapidated neighborhood where he found many remnants of building materials lying about and began making constructions from them. <P1-S2>  He joined the Army after three years of high school and was stationed overseas in occupied Japan working as a topographer. <P1-S3>  Brownlee received his formal education at Oregon State University and at the California College of Arts and Crafts. <P1-S4>  In 1954, he became the first recipient of a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii. <P1-S5>  The Hawaii chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognized Brownlee with a special award for “outstanding contributions of art to architecture”. <P1-S6>  He maintained a studio on the Oregon Coast and worked in carved stone and cast bronze until his death on November 24, 2013. <P1-S7>  <SEP> <P2-S0>  Bill Gertz wrote that Donald Rumsfeld did not wish to name a non-CEO to the job of Secretary. <P2-S1> Romer Leslie "Les" Brownlee served as the Undersecretary of the Army from November 2001 to May 2003 and as Acting United States Secretary of the Army from 10 May 2003 until his resignation effective 2 December 2004, staying at the Undersecretary's office. <SEP> <P3-S0> Donald Henry "Don" Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is an American retired politician and businessman. <P3-S1>  Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), Counsellor to the President (1969–1973), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975). <P3-S2>  Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. <P3-S3>  He is both the youngest and the second oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense.