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    Frances Perkins

    In , SSA staff wrote a brief biography of Frances Perkins, along with a selection of quotation from her career. Social Security Commissioner Stanford G. Ross sent a copy of this bio to Department of Health, Education and Welfare Patricia Harris on 10/25/79, because she had expressed an interest in the life of Miss Perkins. The SSA staff bio with quotes is reproduced in full below.





    Frances Perkins () was the first woman cabinet member. As Secretary of Labor from March to July , she also served longer than any other Secretary.

    Her biographers justly note that she overcame the restrictions and prejudices of her era and established herself as the equal of any person, in areas then virtually dominated by men. She was an outstanding career woman, but more importantly, an outstanding individual and a public official whose work profoundly changed the lives of all Americans. She was the author of two books -- People at Work () and The Roosevelt I Knew () -- in a

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    Frances Perkins

    American workers rights advocate (–)

    Frances Perkins

    In office
    March 4, &#;– June 30,
    PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
    Harry S. Truman
    Preceded byWilliam N. Doak
    Succeeded byLewis B. Schwellenbach
    In office
    –
    PresidentHarry S. Truman
    Succeeded byFrederick Lawton
    Born

    Fannie Coralie Perkins


    ()April 10,
    Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
    DiedMay 14, () (aged&#;85)
    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Political partyDemocratic
    SpousePaul Wilson (m. , died )
    Children1
    EducationMount Holyoke College (BS)
    Columbia University (MA)
    University of Pennsylvania

    Work institutions

    Cornell University
    Telluride Association

    Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, [1][2] – May 14, ) was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States sekreterare of Labor from to , the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Part

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    Frances Perkins




    "I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen."

    Frances Perkins was born on April 10, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in , and Columbia University in with a master's degree in sociology. In she became head of the New York Consumer's League, lobbying for better working hours and conditions. In , Franklin Roosevelt appointed Ms. Perkins as his Secretary of Labor, a position she held for twelve years, longer than any other Secretary of Labor and making her the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States.

    Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has described Frances Perkins in vivid terms: "Brisk and articulate, with vivid dark eyes, a broad forehead and a pointed chin, usually wearing a felt tricorn hart, she remained a Brahmin reformer, proud of her New England background . . . and avsikt on beating sense into the head