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| United States Secretary of Labor | |
|---|---|
 Official Seal | |
 Incumbent Alexander Acosta since April 28, 2017 | |
| Formation | March 6, 1913 |
| First holder | William B. Wilson |
| Succession | Eleventh |
| Website | www.dol.gov |
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.
- Parties
Democratic (12)
Republican (15)
| No. | Portrait | Name | State of Residence | Took Office | Left Office | President(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | ||
4 |  | Frances Perkins | New York | March 4, 1933 | June 30, 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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 | ||
9 |  | Arthur Goldberg | Illinois | January 21, 1961 | September 20, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | |
10 |  | W. Willard Wirtz | Illinois | September 25, 1962 | January 20, 1969 | ||
Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||||
11 |  | George P. 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 | ||
Gerald Ford | |||||||
14 |  | John T. Dunlop | Massachusetts | March 18, 1975 | January 31, 1976 | ||
15 |  | William Usery | 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 |  | Bill 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 M. Martin | Illinois | February 22, 1991 | January 20, 1993 | ||
22 |  | Robert Reich | Massachusetts | January 22, 1993 | January 20, 1997 | Bill Clinton | |
23 |  | Alexis Herman | Alabama | May 1, 1997 | January 20, 2001 | ||
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 |  | Tom Perez | Maryland | July 23, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | ||
– |  | Ed Hugler | Pennsylvania | January 20, 2017 | April 28, 2017 | Donald Trump | |
27 |  | Alexander Acosta | Florida | April 28, 2017 | |||
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