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Past Secretaries of Labor

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The official portraits of the Secretaries of Labor, along with brief biographies, are on permanent display in the Great Hall of the U.S. Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building.

1993 - 2023

2021 - 2023

2019 - 2021

2017 - 2019

2013 - 2017

2009 - 2013

2001 - 2009

1997 - 2001

1993 - 1997

1975 - 1993

1991 - 1993

1989 - 1990

1987 - 1989

1985 - 1987

1981 - 1985

1977 - 1981

1976 - 1977

1975 - 1976

1948 - 1975

1973 - 1975

1970 - 1973

1969 - 1970

1962 - 1969

1961 - 1962

1953 - 1961

1953 - 1953

1948 - 1953

1913 - 1948

1945 - 1948

1933 - 1945

1930 - 1933

1921 - 1930

1913 - 1921

Past Secretaries of Labor

Lapse in Appropriations

1993 - 2023

Martin J. Walsh

Eugene Scalia

Alexander Acosta

Thomas E. Perez

Hilda L. Solis

Elaine L. Chao

Alexis M. Herman

Robert B. Reich

1975 - 1993

Lynn Morley Martin

Elizabeth Hanford Dole

Ann Dore McLaughlin

William E. Brock

Raymond J. Donovan

Ray Marshall

W. J. Usery, Jr.

John T. Dunlop

1948 - 1975

Peter J. Brennan

James D. Hodgson

George P. Shultz

W. Willard Wirtz

Arthur J. Goldberg

James P. Mitchell

Martin P. Durkin

Maurice J. Tobin

1913 - 1948

Lewis B. Schwellenbach

Frances Perkins

William N. Doak

James J. Davis

William B. Wilson