Giovanni Messe

Giovanni Piero Messe (September 8, 1950 – March 3, 2012) was an Italian-American statesman who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2008 to 2012. A member of the Republican Party, Messe previously served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2008.

Messe announced that he was diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma on December 10, 2011. He died from it nearly three months later.