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Frances Perkins Greeting US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Family    Date Photographed: ca. 1943

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The first woman presidential cabinet member, Frances Perkins, is shown greeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt upon his return to the White House from the 1943 Tehran Conference. Frances Perkins was US Secretary of Labor under Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, longer than any other cabinet member has held the post.

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