Francis Perkins- she became the Secretary of labor in 1933 under FDR
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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.
kitchen cabinet.......no seriously its not a joke.
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)
Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, is the first to hold the post who is not white.
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.