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The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the United States Department of Labor. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Previously there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Commerce, which is headed by a separate Secretary of Commerce.

List of Secretaries of Labor


This is a complete list of all past and present Secretaries of Labor.
Secretary of Labor Start of Term End of Term President(s)
William B. Wilson March 6, 1913 March 4, 1921 Woodrow Wilson
James J. Davis March 5, 1921 November 30, 1930 Warren Harding,
Calvin Coolidge,
Herbert Hoover
William N. Doak December 9, 1930 March 4, 1933 Herbert Hoover
Frances Perkins (first woman in the cabinet) March 4, 1933 June 30, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt,
Harry Truman
Lewis B. Schwellenbach July 1, 1945 June 10, 1948 Harry Truman
Maurice J. Tobin August 13, 1948 January 20, 1953
Martin P. Durkin January 21, 1953 September 10, 1953 Dwight Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell October 9, 1953 January 20, 1961
Arthur Goldberg January 21, 1961 September 20, 1962 John Kennedy
W. Willard Wirtz September 25, 1962 January 20, 1969 John Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson
George Shultz January 22, 1969 July 1, 1970 Richard Nixon
James D. Hodgson July 2, 1970 February 1, 1973
Peter J. Brennan February 2, 1973 March 15, 1975 Gerald Ford
John Thomas Dunlop March 18, 1975 January 31, 1976
W. J. Usery Jr. February 10, 1976 January 20, 1977
Ray Marshall January 27, 1977 January 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter
Raymond J. Donovan February 4, 1981 March 15, 1985 Ronald Reagan
William E. Brock April 29, 1985 October 31, 1987
Ann Dore McLaughlin December 17, 1987 January 20, 1989
Elizabeth Dole January 25, 1989 November 23, 1990 George H. W. Bush
Lynn Martin February 22, 1991 January 20, 1993
Robert Reich January 22, 1993 January 10, 1997 Bill Clinton
Alexis Herman May 1, 1997 January 20, 2001
Elaine Chao (first Asian-American; first Asian-American woman) January 29, 2001 present George W. Bush

External links


Lists of ministers | United States Secretaries of Labor | United States Executive Cabinet

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