LIBRARY
POL 499: Senior Seminar in Political Science: FDR: His Cadre
FDR's Cabinet
FDR's Cabinet Officers were as follows:
Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, 1933-1944
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1944-1945
Secretary of Treasury
William H. Woodin, 1933
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., 1934-1945
Secretary of War
George H. Dern, 1933-1936
Harry H. Woodring, 1936-1940
Henry L. Stimson, 1940-1945
Attorney General (Department of Justice)
Homer S. Cummings, 1933-1939
Francis W. (Frank) Murphy, 1939-1940
Robert H. Jackson, 1940-1941
Francis Biddle, 1941-1945
Postmaster General
James A. Farley, 1933-1940
Frank C. Walker, 1940-1945
Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson, 1933-1939
Charles Edison, 1940
William Franklin Knox, 1940-1944
James V. Forrestal, 1944-1947
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes, 1933-1946
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, 1933-1940
Claude R. Wickard, 1940-1945
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper, 1933-1938
Harry L. Hopkins, 1938-1940
Jesse H. Jones, 1940-1945
Henry A. Wallace, 1945-1946
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins, 1933-1945
Unofficial Advisors
- Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1934-1942Royal, M. M. (January 01, 2005). "Maybe You Could Help?" . Social Education, 69, 1.)
- FDR's Black CabinetThe Black Cabinet was the semi-official racial-affairs advisory committee of the Roosevelt administration. Organized in 1936 and led by Mary McLeod Bethune, the Black Cabinet was composed of African American members of Roosevelt’s administration and created to represent and address the rights and needs of black citizens.
The Women
The Woman Behind the New Deal by ISBN: 9781400078561Publication Date: 2010-02-23"Kirstin Downey's lively, substantive and--dare I say--inspiring new biography of Perkins, the first Female Cabinet member not only illuminates Perkins' career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt's character. The Library does not own a copy of this book
Ellen S. Woodward by ISBN: 9780585217512Publication Date: 1995-01-01Ellen S. Woodward (18871971) was touted as Roosevelts second most powerful woman appointee. Among American women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Labor Department Secretary Frances Perkins could claim more elevated roles in the circle of FDRs administration. This long overdue biography of such a remarkable leader traces Woodwards odyssey from the parlors of her Mississippi clubwomen associates to a position as director of womens work relief under three successive New Deal agencies from 1933 to 1938.
America 1933 by ISBN: 9781439196014Publication Date: 2013-06-04The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis. (The library does not own this book)
The Gatekeeper by ISBN: 9781501114960Publication Date: 2016-09-06The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, Marguerite Missy LeHand, FDR's de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history --until now. Widely considered the first female presidential chief of staff, she was the right-hand woman to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, both personally and professionally for more than twenty years. (The library does not own this book)
The Men
Benjamin V. Cohen by ISBN: 0300088795Publication Date: 2002-06-10Benjamin V. Cohen (1894-1983) was a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR's presidency through the early days of the Cold War. His influence extended across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy initiatives.- The secret diary of Harold L. Ickes byCall Number: E748.I28 A36Publication Date: 1953Simon and Schuster
The Making of FDR by ISBN: 9781591025771Publication Date: 2007-11-30This book is not owned by the library
Minister of Relief by Call Number: HV28.H66 C47 1974ISBN: 9780837174075Publication Date: 1974-10-04Hopkins grew up poor, and believed in rights of the poor to decent treatment, rights that he expounded with sharp-tongued, impatient wit.
