Barack Obama
He appointed the first African American cabinet member.
Robert C. Weaver was the first African American member of a presidential cabinet. He headed the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversaw federal housing programs.
Robert C. Weaver, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
roberta harris
Sarah E. Goode
My nation is Australia. Our first female cabinet member was Enid Lyons, in 1949. ________________________________________________________________
marian anderson
Daniels and Bell Inc.
Thomas L. Jennings, 1821, for a dry-cleaning process. Sarah E. Goode, 1885, became the first African-American woman to receive a patent, for a Cabinet bed.
Marian Anderson was the first African-American to be named a permanent member of Metropolitan Opera Company. Her first performance at the Met being in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in 1955 - the part of Ulrica
Alexander Hamilton