#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.
She was a workers-rights activist and key builder of the New Deal. She was in FDR's cabinet for all four terms of his Presidency.
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