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Which is not true about the cabinet?
If someone said the cabinet is elected, it would not be true. The cabinet is appointed by the president, who first nominates them and then has to get the approval of the Senate.
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Lauro Cavazos was appointed in 1988 by Ronald Reagan
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Francis Perkins (1880-1965) was the first woman in a US Cabinet, appointed as Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4, 1933. She served until June 30, 1945.
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