Secretary of Labor

Secretary of Labor of the United States of America
Flag of the Secretary of Labor
Seal of the Department of Labor and Field of Law
Thomas Perez since July 23, 2013
U.S. Department of Labor
Member of	Cabinet
Reports to	The President
Seat	Washington, D.C.
Appointer	The President with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	§ 551
Formation	March 4, 1913
First holder	William B. Wilson
Succession	Eleventh (presidential line of succession)
Deputy	Deputy Secretary of Labor
Salary	Executive Schedule, level 1
Website

The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the U.S. 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.

Previously there was one U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is headed by a separate U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Seven women have served as Secretary of Labor, which is more than any other cabinet position.

Thomas Perez is the current U.S. Secretary of Labor. He took office after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 18, 2013.

1 List of Secretaries of Labor
2 Living former Secretaries of Labor
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

List of Secretaries of Labor

Parties

Democratic Republican

No.	Name	State of Residence	Took Office	Left Office
1	William B. Wilson	Pennsylvania	March 6, 1913	March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
2	James J. Davis	Pennsylvania	March 5, 1921	November 30, 1930	Warren G. Harding
					Calvin Coolidge
					Herbert Hoover
3	William N. Doak	Virginia	December 9, 1930	March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
4	Frances Perkins	New York	March 4, 1933	June 30, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt
4	Frances Perkins	New York	March 4, 1933	June 30, 1945	Harry S. Truman
5	Lewis B. Schwellenbach	Washington	July 1, 1945	June 10, 1948
6	Maurice J. Tobin	Massachusetts	August 13, 1948	January 20, 1953
7	Martin P. Durkin	Maryland	January 21, 1953	September 10, 1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower
8	James P. Mitchell	New Jersey	October 9, 1953	January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
9	Arthur Goldberg	Illinois	January 21, 1961	September 20, 1962	John F. Kennedy
10	W. Willard Wirtz	Illinois	September 25, 1962	January 20, 1969	John F. Kennedy
10	W. Willard Wirtz	Illinois	September 25, 1962	January 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
11	George Shultz	Illinois	January 22, 1969	July 1, 1970	Richard Nixon
12	James D. Hodgson	California	July 2, 1970	February 1, 1973
13	Peter J. Brennan	New York	February 2, 1973	March 15, 1975
13	Peter J. Brennan	New York	February 2, 1973	March 15, 1975	Gerald Ford
14	John Thomas Dunlop	Massachusetts	March 18, 1975	January 31, 1976
15	W. J. Usery Jr.	Georgia	February 10, 1976	January 20, 1977
16	Ray Marshall	Texas	January 27, 1977	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
17	Raymond J. Donovan	New Jersey	February 4, 1981	March 15, 1985	Ronald Reagan
18	William E. Brock	Tennessee	April 29, 1985	October 31, 1987
19	Ann Dore McLaughlin	District of Columbia	December 17, 1987	January 20, 1989
20	Elizabeth Dole	Kansas	January 25, 1989	November 23, 1990	George H. W. Bush
21	Lynn Morley Martin	Illinois	February 22, 1991	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
22	Robert Reich	Massachusetts	January 22, 1993	January 20, 1997	Bill Clinton
23	Alexis Herman	Alabama	May 1, 1997	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
24	Elaine Chao	Kentucky	January 29, 2001	January 20, 2009	George W. Bush
25	Hilda Solis	California	February 24, 2009	January 22, 2013	Barack Obama
26	Thomas Perez	Maryland	July 23, 2013	present

Living former Secretaries of Labor

References

External links

Commons has media related to United States Secretaries of Labor.

Hall of the Secretaries of Labor: Portraits and Biographies

United States presidential line of succession
Preceded by Secretary of Commerce	11th in line	Succeeded by Secretary of Health and Human Services

v t e United States Secretaries of Labor

Secretaries of Commerce and Labor	Cortelyou Metcalf Straus Nagel

Secretaries of Labor	Wilson Davis Doak Perkins Schwellenbach Tobin Durkin Mitchell Goldberg Wirtz Shultz Hodgson Brennan Dunlop Usery Marshall Donovan Brock McLaughlin Dole Martin Reich Herman Chao Solis Perez

v t e Leaders of the United States federal executive departments

Current	Agriculture Commerce Defense Education Energy Health and Human Services Homeland Security Housing and Urban Development Interior Justice Labor State Transportation Treasury Veterans Affairs

Past	Commerce and Labor Health, Education, and Welfare Navy Post Office War

This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002.

Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles.

By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. World Heritage Encyclopedia™ is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association, a non-profit organization.

Secretary of Labor