September 22, 2011
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PERKINS, Frances (1880-1965), born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet who remained in offices for his entire presidency. Typed Letter Signed "Francis Perkins," May 12, 1962, Ithaca, New York, 1pp. Perkins requests books from a book shop.
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