Frances Perkins
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 59 years ago |
Date of birth | April 10,1880 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Boston |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Date of died | May 14,1965 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Previous office | United States Secretary of Labor (1933–1945) |
Children | Susanna Wilson Coggeshall |
Job | Politician |
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Sociologist | |
Activist | |
Education | Mount Holyoke College |
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | |
Columbia University | |
Books | The Roosevelt I knew |
Two Views of American Labor | |
Third Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1914 | |
Spouse | Paul Caldwell Wilson |
Place of burial | Glidden Cemetery, Damariscotta-Newcastle, Maine, United States |
Previous position | United States Secretary of Labor (1933–1945) |
Party | Democratic Party |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 481300 |
Frances Perkins Life story
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Party, Perkins was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.