Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins Wilson was the U.S.160Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S.160Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin160D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold160L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.
Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Susan Bean Perkins and Frederick W. Perkins, the owner of a stationers business . She spent much of her childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was christened Fannie Coralie Perkins, but she changed her name to Frances when she joined the Episcopal church in 1905.
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