United States Secretary of Labor

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The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who decides on decisions for the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

Previously there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Commerce, which is headed by a separate Secretary of Commerce.

[edit] List of Secretaries of Labor

This is a complete list of all past and present Secretaries of Labor.

No.	Secretary of Labor	Start of Term	End of Term	President(s)
1	William B. Wilson	March 6, 1913	March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
2	James J. Davis	March 5, 1921	November 30, 1930	Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
3	William N. Doak	December 9, 1930	March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
4	Frances Perkins (first woman in the cabinet)	March 4, 1933	June 30, 1945	Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman
5	Lewis B. Schwellenbach	July 1, 1945	June 10, 1948	Harry Truman
6	Maurice J. Tobin	August 13, 1948	January 20, 1953	Harry Truman
7	Martin P. Durkin	January 21, 1953	September 10, 1953	Dwight Eisenhower
8	James P. Mitchell	October 9, 1953	January 20, 1961	Dwight Eisenhower
9	Arthur Goldberg	January 21, 1961	September 20, 1962	John Kennedy
10	W. Willard Wirtz	September 25, 1962	January 20, 1969	John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
11	George Shultz	January 22, 1969	July 1, 1970	Richard Nixon
12	James D. Hodgson	July 2, 1970	February 1, 1973	Richard Nixon
13	Peter J. Brennan	February 2, 1973	March 15, 1975	Gerald Ford
14	John Thomas Dunlop	March 18, 1975	January 31, 1976
15	W. J. Usery Jr.	February 10, 1976	January 20, 1977
16	Ray Marshall	January 27, 1977	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
17	Raymond J. Donovan	February 4, 1981	March 15, 1985	Ronald Reagan
18	William E. Brock	April 29, 1985	October 31, 1987
19	Ann Dore McLaughlin	December 17, 1987	January 20, 1989
20	Elizabeth Dole	January 25, 1989	November 23, 1990	George H. W. Bush
21	Lynn Martin	February 22, 1991	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
22	Robert Reich	January 22, 1993	January 10, 1997	Bill Clinton
23	Alexis Herman (first African American; first African American woman)	May 1, 1997	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
24	Elaine Chao (first Asian American; first Asian American woman)	January 29, 2001	present	George W. Bush

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United States Secretaries of Labor
Secretaries of Commerce & Labor: Cortelyou • Metcalf • Straus • Nagel Secretaries of Labor: Wilson • Davis • Doak • Perkins • Schwellenbach • Tobin • Durkin • Mitchell • Goldberg • Wirtz • Shultz • Hodgson • Brennan • Dunlop • Usery • Marshall • Donovan • Brock • McLaughlin • Dole • Martin • Reich • Herman • Chao

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