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Oveta Culp Hobby's birth name is Olveta Culp.
Oveta Culp Hobby was born on January 19, 1905, in Killeen, Texas, USA.
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Oveta Culp Hobby died on August 16, 1995, in Houston, Texas, USA of stroke.
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby.
Killeen Texas
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby.
Oveta Culp Hobby .
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby was the director of the WAAC/WAC during WW 2.
Yes, she had two, both of them born on her birthday! William Hobby, Jr. and Jessica Hobby Cato. Jessica passed away earlier this year and her son, Bill, a former Lieutenant Governor of Texas, still lives in Houston. He has a memoir coming out September 29th.
The Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy , Admiral Chester W. Nimitz , Dwight D. Eisenhower and Oveta Culp Hobby .
The second female cabinet appointment came from President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 when he appointed Oveta Culp Hobby the Secretary of Helth, Education and Welfare. The first President to appoint a woman was Franklin Roosevelt (Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, 1933).