United States Secretary of Labor

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 now headed by a separate Secretary of Commerce.

Secretaries of Labor
Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
William B. Wilson[?]	March 6, 1913 - March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
James J. Davis[?]	March 5, 1921 - November 30, 1930	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
William N. Doak[?]	December 9, 1930 - March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
Frances Perkins[?] (first female)	March 4, 1933 - June 30, 1945	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lewis B. Schwellenbach[?]	July 1, 1945 - June 10, 1948	Harry S. Truman
Maurice J. Tobin[?]	August 13, 1948 - January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
Martin P. Durkin[?]	January 21, 1953 - September 10, 1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell[?]	October 9, 1953 - January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Arthur J. Goldberg[?]	January 21, 1961 - September 20, 1962	John F. Kennedy
W. Willard Wirtz[?]	September 25, 1962 - January 20, 1969	Lyndon Johnson
George P. Shultz	January 22, 1969 - July 1, 1970	Richard Nixon
James D. Hodgson[?]	July 2, 1970 - February 1, 1973	Richard Nixon
Peter J. Brennan[?]	February 2, 1973 - March 15, 1975	Gerald Ford
John T. Dunlop[?]	March 18, 1975 - January 31, 1976	Gerald Ford
W. J. Usery, Jr.[?]	February 10, 1976 - January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
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	Ronald Reagan
Ann Dore McLaughlin[?]	December 17, 1987 - January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth Hanford Dole	January 25, 1989 - November 23, 1990	George H. W. Bush
Lynn Morley Martin[?]	February 22, 1991 - January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Robert B. Reich[?]	January 22, 1993 - January 10, 1997	Bill Clinton
Alexis M. Herman	May 1, 1997 - January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
Elaine L. Chao	January 29, 2001 - present	George W. Bush

External Links

History at the Department of Labor (http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/history/main.htm)

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