Yes, his position was the head of a newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development
Robert C. Weaver
He became the head of a newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development.
James B. Weaver
In the Presidential Election of 1880, the Republicans nominated James A. Garfield of Ohio, the Democrats nominated Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania, and the Greenback-Labor Party nominated James B. Weaver of Iowa. James A. Garfield won the election, becoming the 20th President of the United States.
William McKinley won the 1896 presidential election defeating William J. Bryan. In the 1896 presidential election William McKinley received 271 electoral votes and William Bryan received 176 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were McKinley 7,108,480 and Bryan 6,511,495.
Peter Salem died in 1816. Peter Salem lived at Leicester, Massachusetts and was a cane weaver after the American Revolution He died in a public poorhouse in 1816 at the age of 66. In 1882 a monument was put up by the town of Framingham, Massachusetts at the Old Burying Ground.
roosevelt
From 1966-1968, Robert C. Weaver served as the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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.
Lyndon Johnson appointed Dr. Robert C. Weaver as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_/ai_19663328
Robert weaver
condalisa rice serving under george w bush sorry but you are actually wrong, she was the second and the first was roberta harris in 1896 so get your facts straight Both answers are incorrect. Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African- American woman to serve in a president's cabinet. She served as Sec. of Housing and Urban Development under President Carter in 1977, then as Secretary of Health Education & Welfare in 1979 and remained as sec after the department was renamed the Dept of Health and Human Services in 1980. She served until Carter left office in 1981.
He became the head of a newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Robert Weaver
Robert C. Weaver died in 1997.
Robert Weaver - editor - was born in 1921.
Robert Weaver - editor - died in 2008.
Robert Weaver who was Secretary of HUD under LB Johnson was the first Black cabinet member in the US.