Face Value 15 Cents | 1980 | Scott 1821
Born in Boston, Frances Perkins became distinguished as a workers-rights activist, and served as the US Secretary of Labor under the Roosevelt administration, the first woman to serve in the Cabinet of a US President. Her efforts pervade every aspect of modern-day labor laws; she was largely responsible for establishment of the minimum wage, overtime laws, social security, unemployment insurance, and the standard 40-hour work week during her tenure as Secretary, the longest tenure of anyone in that role to date and one of only two people to stay in President Roosevelt’s cabinet for his entire time as president. She remained active teaching and lecturing until her death in 1965. She was voted in to the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1982. This stamp, issued in 1980, coincided with the renaming of the US Department of Labor headquarters in Washington after her.
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