Franes Perkins
Frances Perkins, who was Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to serve in any president's cabinet.
The first woman on the US Cabinet was Frances Perkins, who served as US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
Frances Perkins
Yes - her name was Frances Perklins.
Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
No female Secretary of Labor was black and no black female cabinet member was Secretary of Labor.
Francis Perkins- she became the Secretary of labor in 1933 under FDR
Francis Perkins (1880-1965) was the first woman in a US Cabinet, appointed as Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4, 1933. She served until June 30, 1945.
Frances Coralie Perkins was the first woman to be in the U.S. Cabinet. She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945.
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor for George W. Bush was of Chinese descent and is the first of Asian ancestry.
It was Frances Perkins (April 10, 1880 - May 14, 1965), born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
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).