Question

The person chose to head the newly-formed Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1952 was unique because a. he/she was the leader of the suffrage movement. b. he/she was a communist leader and self-proclaimed racist. c. she was only the second woman to hold a cabinet post in American history. d. he/she was the younger person to hold a cabinet post in American history.

Answer 1

The correct answer is c. she was only the second woman to hold a cabinet post in American history.

The person chosen in 1952 to head the newly-formed Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by President Eisenhower was Oveta Culp Hobby. She was the second woman to hold a cabinet post after Frances Perkins, the first woman whom assumed Secretary of Labor for President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.