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Who was the first women to hold a cabinet post?
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.
What were Jackson's advisers who did not hold regular cabinet appointments called?
kitchen cabinet.......no seriously its not a joke.
Who were the members of George Washington's cabinet and what positions did they hold?
Washington's first cabinet wasSecretary of State (Thomas Jefferson),Secretary of Treasury (Alexander Hamilton),Secretary of War (Henry Knox),Attorney General (Edmund Jennings Randolph)Post Master General (Samuel Osgood) - Not a cabinet level position at this time.Second term cabinetSecretary of State (Edmund Jennings Randolph, Thomas Pickering (1795)Secretary of Treasury (Alexander Hamilton),Secretary of War (Thomas Pickering, James McHenry (1796)Attorney General (William Bradford, Charles Lee ( 1795))Post Master General (Timothy Pickering)
Have there ever been any white US presidents?
Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, is the first to hold the post who is not white.
Why was Washington cabinet important?
Mr. Washington chose to choose cabinet members as a method of distributing power. His intention was to not hold sole power, therefore preventing tyranny within the American government.
