Norman Mineta, a former mayor of San Jose, congressman and cabinet secretary under two presidents, has died at the age of 90, city officials said.

Mineta, the first Asian-American mayor of a major American city, was the only Democratic member of President George W. Bush’s cabinet, serving as secretary of transportation from 2001 to 2006 including during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that prompted the temporary shutdown of planes countrywide.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.