Though not born in Maine, her family's homesteads Damascada River. And she did her best thinking there. And therefore Social Security is ours. Frances Perkins was the first woman cabinet member in American history. Goes up in the FDR administration, 1933, to serve as the longest serving Secretary of Labor in American history. (18:13–18:18)
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Asserts that Frances Perkins was the first female cabinet member in U.S. history.
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