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Who was the first woman appointed to a US Cabinet position?

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Who was the first woman appointed to a US Cabinet position?

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While Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet position (Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945), and Lyndon Johnson appointed the first African-American to the cabinet (Robert Weaver as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development), most of the cabinet positions that were held by women and minorities tended to be…