Background
PERKINS, Frances was born on April 10, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Frederick W. and Susan (Wight) Perkins.
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A vivid and intimate portrait of the New Deal president by the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. When Frances Perkins first met Franklin D. Roosevelt at a dance in 1910, she was a young social worker and he was an attractive young man making a modest debut in state politics. Over the next thirty-five years, she watched his career unfold, becoming both a close family friend and a trusted political associate whose tenure as secretary of labor spanned his entire administration. FDR and his presidential policies continue to be widely discussed in the classroom and in the media, and The Roosevelt I Knew offers a unique window onto the man whose courage and pioneering reforms still resonate in the lives of Americans today.
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PERKINS, Frances was born on April 10, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Frederick W. and Susan (Wight) Perkins.
AB, Mount Holyoke College, 1902. Studied, University Pennsylvania. Master of Arts in Sociology, Columbia University, 1910.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Wisconsin, 1933. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College, 1934. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Brandeis University, 1961.
Executive secretary Consumers' League, New York City, 1910-1912, Committee on Safety, New York City, 1912-1917. Executive director New York Council Organization for War Service, 1917-1919. Commissioner New York State Industrial Commission, 1919-1921.
Director Council on Immigrant Education, 1921-1923. Member State Industrial Board, New York City, 1923-1929, chairman, 1926—1929. Industrial commissioner State of New York, 1929-1933.
Secretary United States Department Labor, Washington, 1933-1945. Visiting lecturer sociology, Adelphi College, 1910-1912, labor relations & political science University Illinois, 1953, Seminar of America Subjects, Salzburg, Austria, 1955, professor, Cornell University, 1956-1965.
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Chairman President's Committee on Economic Security, 1934. Member Board Economic Stabilization War Manpower Commission, Federal Advisory Board for Vocational Education, National Archives Commission, United States Civil Service Commission, 1946-1952. Chairman United States Delegation to International Labor Organization Conference, Paris, 1945.
Member Colony Club, Cosmopolitan Club.
Married Paul Caldwell Wilson (deceased 1952), September 26, 1913. 1 child Susanna.