Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Party, Perkins was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her longtime friend, President Franklin D.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Boston
- Educated at
- The Wharton SchoolColumbia University
- Awards
- 🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame🏆 Labor Hall of Honor🏆 Elizabeth Blackwell Award🏆 honorary doctor of Brandeis University
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Trending topics shown first"What is the trouble? How can we cure this? ...What can be done? ...I had to do something about unnecessary hazards to life, unnecessary poverty. It was sort of up to me. This feeling... sprang out of …"
"To know him is to love him... He's honest, high-minded, intelligent and—above all—independent. I have worked with him in government for years. There has never been any conflict between his official du…"
"Harry Bridges is a card-carrying Communist, Franklin, but that's the single black mark against him and isn't illegal. I just don't believe a man should be punished for what he believes or thinks."
"The day I need an armed bodyguard is the day I admit my job's too much for a woman."
"The process of recovery is not a simple one. ... We cannot be satisfied merely with makeshift arrangements which will tide us over the present emergencies. We must devise plans that will not merely al…"
"Although their commission was to devise ways and means to prevent accidents by fire in the State of New York, we... kept expanding the function of the commission 'till it came to be the report on sani…"
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1880
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Birth1965
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