User:Knope7/sandbox/Frances Perkins

Famous Tricorne hat, maligned for being a woman. Successor named.

Truman nominates new secretary, May 23, 1945.

Susanna attended Bryn Mawr college for two years before dropping out. In 1937, Susanna moved in to Perkins' Georgetown home. Susanna took an unpaid position at a Washington D.C. art gallery. The following March, Perkins married New York photographer David Meredith Hare.

Husband lived mostly in institutions from 1933 until his death.

Labor reforms recap when appointed by Roosevelt.

Support for a minimum wage, calling it feasible, and starting public works program within months.

Sheilds private life even though attention comes with being first female cabinet member. Stopped investigations into communists when she took over, instead focusing on statistics to meassure the depression. Weekly press conferences. Still has home in New England. Quilt collection. Always wears tricorne hat and black.

New york state DOL: https://www.labor.ny.gov/about/history.shtm

DOL: https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/perkins.htm

DOL: Fair Labor Standards Act https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm

Timeline: http://francesperkinscenter.org/chronology-2/

APWU: https://web.archive.org/web/20081203153050/https://www.apwu.org/join/women2008/lbportraits/portraits-labor-perkins.htm

Huffpo on social security: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/if-you-like-social-security-and-minimum-wage_b_7475098.html

Labor Hall of Fame: https://web.archive.org/web/20071130182958/http://findarticles.com:80/p/articles/mi_m1153/is_n6_v112/ai_7847159/pg_4

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With the death of President Roosevelt, Vice President Truman ascended to the office on April 12, 1945. Truman chose his own cabinet, including Lewis B. Schwellenbach as Secretary of Labor. Perkins' tenure as Secretary ended on June 30, 1945 with the swearing in of Schwellenbach.