United States Secretaries of Labor
U.S. cabinet member and head of the U.S. Department of Labor
List of secretaries of labor edit
- Parties
▇ Democratic (13) ▇ Republican (16)
Status
▇ Acting Secretary of Labor
| No. | Portrait | Name | State of residence | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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| 1 | 
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William B. Wilson | Pennsylvania | March 6, 1913 | March 4, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | |
| 2 | 
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James J. Davis | Pennsylvania | March 5, 1921 | November 30, 1930 | Warren G. Harding | |
| Calvin Coolidge | |||||||
| Herbert Hoover | |||||||
| 3 | 
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w:William N. Doak | Virginia | December 9, 1930 | March 4, 1933 | ||
| 4 | 
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Frances Perkins | New York | March 4, 1933 | June 30, 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Harry S. Truman | |||||||
| 5 | 
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Lewis B. Schwellenbach | Washington | July 1, 1945 | June 10, 1948 | ||
| 6 | 
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Maurice J. Tobin | Massachusetts | August 13, 1948 | January 20, 1953 | ||
| 7 | 
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Martin P. Durkin | Maryland | January 21, 1953 | September 10, 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 8 | 
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James P. Mitchell | New Jersey | October 9, 1953 | January 20, 1961 | ||
| 9 | 
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Arthur Goldberg | Illinois | January 21, 1961 | September 20, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | |
| 10 | 
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W. Willard Wirtz | Illinois | September 25, 1962 | January 20, 1969 | ||
| Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||||
| 11 | 
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George P. Shultz | Illinois | January 22, 1969 | July 1, 1970 | Richard Nixon | |
| 12 | 
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James D. Hodgson | California | July 2, 1970 | February 1, 1973 | ||
| 13 | 
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w:Peter J. Brennan | New York | February 2, 1973 | March 15, 1975 | ||
| Gerald Ford | |||||||
| 14 | 
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John T. Dunlop | Massachusetts | March 18, 1975 | January 31, 1976 | ||
| 15 | 
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William Usery, Jr. | Georgia | February 10, 1976 | January 20, 1977 | ||
| 16 | 
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Ray Marshall | Texas | January 27, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | Jimmy Carter | |
| 17 | 
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Ray Dnovan | New Jersey | February 4, 1981 | March 15, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | |
| 18 | 
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Bill Brock | Tennessee | April 29, 1985 | October 31, 1987 | ||
| 19 | 
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Ann Dore McLaughlin | District of Columbia | December 17, 1987 | January 20, 1989 | ||
| 20 | 
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Elizabeth Dole | Kansas | January 25, 1989 | November 23, 1990 | George H. W. Bush | |
| 21 | 
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Lynn M. Martin | Illinois | February 22, 1991 | January 20, 1993 | ||
| 22 | 
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Robert Reich | Massachusetts | January 22, 1993 | January 20, 1997 | Bill Clinton | |
| 23 | 
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Alexis Herman | Alabama | May 1, 1997 | January 20, 2001 | ||
| 24 | 
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w:Elaine Chao | Kentucky | January 29, 2001 | January 20, 2009 | George W. Bush | |
| – | 
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Howard Radzely | Pennsylvania | January 20, 2009 | February 2, 2009 | Barack Obama | |
| – | 
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Ed Hugler | Pennsylvania | February 2, 2009 | February 24, 2009 | ||
| 25 | 
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Hilda Solis | California | February 24, 2009 | January 22, 2013 | ||
| – | 
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w:Seth Harris | New York | January 22, 2013 | July 23, 2013 | ||
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w:Tom Perez | Maryland | July 23, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | ||
| – |
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Ed Hugler | Pennsylvania | January 20, 2017 | April 27, 2017 | Donald Trump | |
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w:Alexander Acosta | Florida | April 28, 2017 | July 19, 2019 | ||
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w:Patrick Pizzella | Virginia | July 20, 2019 | September 30, 2019 | ||
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w:Eugene Scalia | Virginia | September 30, 2019 | January 20, 2021 | ||
| – | 
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Al Stewart | Virginia | January 20, 2021 | March 23, 2021 | Joe Biden | |
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Marty Walsh | Massachusetts | March 23, 2021 | March 11, 2023 | ||
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Julie Su | California | March 11, 2023 | Incumbent | |||