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.
She was the first woman to hold a presidential cabinet position.
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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Frances Coralie Perkins was the first woman to be in the U.S. Cabinet. She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945.
Senior advisor to the HUD Secretary
The editor of the Washington Post is Sally Buzbee. She was appointed as the executive editor in June 2021, becoming the first woman to hold this position in the publication's history.
John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon were all vice-presidents and US senators but never held a cabinet post. ( Martin Van Buren was the only man to be the VP, US Senator and hold a cabinet post.)
According to www.womensenews.org/ only 22 women have served on presidential cabinets in all of U.S. history.
Condoleezza Rice is known as the first black woman to hold the post of National Security Advisor. She was also the first African American provost of Stanford University.