United States
Secretary of Labor |
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Official Seal
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Incumbent
Seth Harrissince January 22, 2013
acting
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| Formation |
March 6, 1913 |
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| First holder |
William B. Wilson |
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| Succession |
Eleventh |
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| Website |
www.dol.gov |
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The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.
List of Secretaries of Labor
This is a complete list of all past and present Secretaries of Labor.
| No. |
Secretary of Labor |
Portrait |
Start of Term |
End of Term |
President(s) |
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| 1 |
William B. Wilson |
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March 6, 1913 |
March 4, 1921 |
Woodrow Wilson |
| 2 |
James J. Davis |
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March 5, 1921 |
November 30, 1930 |
Warren Harding,
Calvin Coolidge,
Herbert Hoover |
| 3 |
William N. Doak |
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December 9, 1930 |
March 4, 1933 |
Herbert Hoover |
| 4 |
Frances Perkins |
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March 4, 1933 |
June 30, 1945 |
Franklin Roosevelt,
Harry Truman |
| 5 |
Lewis B. Schwellenbach |
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July 1, 1945 |
June 10, 1948 |
Harry Truman |
| 6 |
Maurice J. Tobin |
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August 13, 1948 |
January 20, 1953 |
| 7 |
Martin P. Durkin |
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January 21, 1953 |
September 10, 1953 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
| 8 |
James P. Mitchell |
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October 9, 1953 |
January 20, 1961 |
| 9 |
Arthur Goldberg |
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January 21, 1961 |
September 20, 1962 |
John Kennedy |
| 10 |
W. Willard Wirtz |
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September 25, 1962 |
January 20, 1969 |
John Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson |
| 11 |
George Shultz |
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January 22, 1969 |
July 1, 1970 |
Richard Nixon |
| 12 |
James D. Hodgson |
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July 2, 1970 |
February 1, 1973 |
| 13 |
Peter J. Brennan |
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February 2, 1973 |
March 15, 1975 |
Gerald Ford |
| 14 |
John Thomas Dunlop |
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March 18, 1975 |
January 31, 1976 |
| 15 |
W. J. Usery Jr. |
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February 10, 1976 |
January 20, 1977 |
| 16 |
Ray Marshall |
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January 27, 1977 |
January 20, 1981 |
Jimmy Carter |
| 17 |
Raymond J. Donovan |
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February 4, 1981 |
March 15, 1985 |
Ronald Reagan |
| 18 |
William E. Brock |
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April 29, 1985 |
October 31, 1987 |
| 19 |
Ann Dore McLaughlin |
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December 17, 1987 |
January 20, 1989 |
| 20 |
Elizabeth Dole |
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January 25, 1989 |
November 23, 1990 |
George H. W. Bush |
| 21 |
Lynn Morley Martin |
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February 22, 1991 |
January 20, 1993 |
| 22 |
Robert Reich |
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January 22, 1993 |
January 10, 1997 |
Bill Clinton |
| 23 |
Alexis Herman |
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May 1, 1997 |
January 20, 2001 |
| 24 |
Elaine Chao |
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January 29, 2001 |
January 20, 2009 |
George W. Bush |
| 25 |
Hilda Solis |
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February 24, 2009 |
January 23, 2013 |
Barack Obama |
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Seth Harris (as Deputy Secretary) |
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January 22, 2013 |
present |
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