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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. [4] Patricia Roberts Harris was the first black woman to serve in a presidential cabinet when she was named to the same position by President Jimmy Carter in
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Grave at Arlington National Cemetery. While at Middlebury College, Ron Brown became the first African-American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, collegiate fraternity.Brown was commissioned through the ROTC program as a 2nd Lieutenant of Armor in the United States Army in 1962 after graduating from Middlebury, the same year he married Alma Arrington.
Brown was endorsed by former Democratic president Bill Clinton while Sanchez was endorsed by then-President George W. Bush, former President George H. W. Bush and his wife, former First Lady Barbara Bush; Rudy Giuliani and a host of other Republicans. Some members of the President's cabinet campaigned for Sanchez in Houston.
President-elect Bill Clinton had vowed to assemble an administration that "looked like America", and it was widely assumed that one of the major cabinet posts would go to a woman. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] On February 11, 1993, Clinton introduced Reno as his nominee for United States Attorney General , stating that he wanted to hire a woman for the job but ...
President Joe Biden's Cabinet members plan to stay put for the rest of his term, they recently told the White House, after Chief of Staff Jeff Zients gave them a deadline to decide.
Shalala served as HHS secretary for eight years during the Clinton administration, becoming the nation's longest-serving HHS secretary. [22] In 1996, Shalala was the designated survivor during Clinton's State of the Union address. [23] She is the first Lebanese-American to serve in a cabinet position. [24]
Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 before his daughter Sarah, the current Governor of Arkansas, was a White House press secretary during Trump's first term. Mike Huckabee is a ...