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Rod Paige, the first Black U.S. Secretary of Education, died Tuesday at the age of 92 in his Houston home.

Paige served as Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.

Before his political career, he was the head football coach and later the interim president at his alma mater, Jackson State University.

He is survived by his wife, two children, and two sisters.

Rod Paige, the first Black man to serve as U.S. secretary of education, died on Tuesday morning, Dec. 9, at the age of 92.

According to a statement from his family, Paige died in his Houston home with his wife, Stephanie, by his side. The statement did not specify a cause of death.

Paige, who served as secretary of education under President George W. Bush, was born in 1933 in Mo

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