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
|
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アメリカ合衆国労働長官
"United States Secretary of Labor"