Secretaries of Labor of the United States

Secretary

Term of Office

William B. Wilson	1913-1921
James J. Davis	1921-1930
William N. Doak	1930-1933
Frances Perkins 1	1933-1945
Lewis B. Schwellenbach	1945-1948
Maurice J. Tobin	1948-1953
Martin P. Durkin	1953
James P. Mitchell	1953-1961
Arthur J. Goldberg	1961-1962
W. Willard Wirtz	1962-1969
George P. Shultz	1969-1970
James D. Hodgson	1970-1973
Peter J. Brennan	1973-1975
John T. Dunlop	1975-1976
W. J. Usery, Jr.	1976-1977
Ray Marshall	1977-1981
Raymond J. Donovan	1981-1985
William E. Brock	1985-1987
Ann Dore McLaughlin	1987-1989
Elizabeth Hanford Dole	1989-1990
Lynn Morley Martin	1991-1993
Robert B. Reich	1993-1997
Alexis M. Herman	1997-2001
Elaine Chao	2001-
1) First woman to be appointed head of a U.S. government department.