Trivia Questions- Under Construction

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Wilbur Ross who served as Secretary of Commerce in the first Trump administration. He was 79 years old at the time he became Secretary. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt 

1971.  The Postmaster General was part of the President's Cabinet  from 1829 to 1971, at which time the Post Office became an independent agency of the executive branch. 

 Elliot Richardson held the most different positions within the presidential cabinet with four, having served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Secretary of Defense; and Attorney General, all three under President Richard Nixon, as well as Secretary of Commerce for President Gerald Ford. 

 1947 with the passage of the National Security Act, which created the Department of Defense and placed the Secretary of the Navy under the Secretary of Defense

 Frances Perkins served as the secretary of labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and became the first woman to hold a Cabinet position in a U.S. president's administration. 

 Robert C. Weaver became the first Black-American to serve in a president's cabinet when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966.