Oveta Culp Hobby

Oveta Culp Hobby was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Womens Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post.

Culp was born on January 19, 1905, in Killeen, Texas to Isaac William Culp and Emma Elizabeth Hoover. An autodidact, she briefly attended Mary Hardin Baylor College for Women, and attended law classes at South Texas College of Law and Commerce. She did not graduate from either school. She did go onto study law at the University of Texas Law School. Starting at agefor several years she served as parliamentarian of the Texas House of Representatives.

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