Jeh Charles Johnson is an American civil, criminal trial lawyer, and the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security. He was the General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2012 during the first Obama Administration. Johnson is a graduate of Morehouse College and Columbia Law School, and is grandson of sociologist and Fisk University president Dr. Charles S. Johnson. Johnson is currently serving as the Secretary of Homeland Security, and is the fourth person to hold the office. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in October 2013, and was subsequently confirmed on December 16, 2013, by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 78?16. Johnson's first name is taken from a Liberian chief, who reportedly saved his grandfather?s life while Dr. Johnson was on a League of Nations mission to Liberia in 1930. 

September 11th, 1957 in New York City (Age 67)