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1. francesperkinscenter.orgFrances Perkins Center - Honoring the Woman Behind the New Deal

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   FRANCES PERKINS. hONORING AND PRESERVING THE LEGACY of the woman behind the new deal. Learning More About Frances Perkins. FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, was the driving force behind the New Deal. More About Her Life. Programs & Events.

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   Frances Perkins Center. In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Perkins as Secretary of the Department of Labor. Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet position.

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   How did Frances Perkins contribute to the New Deal?

   • Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, was the driving force behind the New Deal, credited with formulating policies to shore up the national economy following the nation’s most serious economic crisis and helping to create the modern middle class.

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   What did Frances Perkins do for a living?

   • With her extensive experience in public service, Perkins made history in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her be to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first women to hold a U.S. cabinet position. Perkins helped in the creation of the New Deal and Social Security programs. Frances Perkins died in May of 1965 at the age of 85.

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   What is the Frances Perkins Program?

   • Her alma mater Mount Holyoke College created the Frances Perkins Program which is a specially designed program for women of non-traditional age who wish to complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree. On May 14, 1965, Frances Perkins died of a stroke at Midtown Hospital in New York City at age 85.

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   Who was Frances Perkins?

   • Roosevelt said he endorsed them all, and Frances Perkins became the first woman in the nation to serve in a Presidential cabinet. From her earliest days in the Roosevelt cabinet, Frances Perkins was a forceful advocate for massive public works programs to bring the nation’s unemployed back to work.

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