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Commerce, William C. Redfield, was an iron and steel executive and author of a book, The New Industrial Day. The first Secretary of Commerce and Labor was George B. Cortelyou.</p> <h2>Length of Service</h2> <p>The longest-serving Secretary of Commerce was Herbert C. Hoover. A mining engineer who directed projects in Australia and for the Chinese before his public service career, which culminated in his election as President of the United States, served almost seven and one-half years. The Department of Commerce headquarters building is named in his honor.</p> <p>Both William C. Redfield and Malcolm Baldrige served for more than six years.</p> <p>Eight Secretaries served less than a year.</p> <p>Two Secretaries died while in office: Malcolm Baldrige and Ronald H. Brown.</p> <h2>Women Secretaries</h2> <p>Juanita Kreps, the first woman and the only economist to serve as Secretary, was vice president of Duke University and a labor demographics specialist.</p> <p>Barbara Franklin was the second woman to serve as Secretary. She was among the first women to graduate from Harvard Business School and served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents. 1971, she directed the first White House program to recruit women for high-level government jobs.</p> <p>Penny Pritzker was the third woman to serve as Secretary. Before her term in government service, she helped found multiple businesses, including PSP Capital and the Pritzker Realty Group.</p> <h2>African-American Secretary</h2> <p>Ronald Brown was the first African American to serve as Secretary. A lawyer, negotiator, pragmatic bridge builder, and past Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, Brown, unlike many of his predecessors, did not come directly from the business community.</p> <p>Brown died in a plane crash while on a trade mission to Croatia and Bosnia on April 3, 1996.</p> <h2>Asian-American Secretaries</h2> <p>Norman Mineta was the first Asian-American Secretary (July 21, 2000-Jan. 19, 2001). Secretary Gary Locke later followed as the second. He resigned on August 1, 2011, when he was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.</p> <h2>Other Offices Held</h2> <p>Henry Wallace served as Vice President of the United States before he was appointed Secretary of Commerce. Three secretaries served in the U.S. Congress: Sinclair Weeks served in the U.S. Senate, Joshua Alexander served seven terms, and Rogers C. B. Morton served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.</p> <p>Four others held top state offices. Luther Hodges was elected governor and lieutenant governor of North Carolina. Charles Sawyer was lieutenant governor of Ohio, and Elliot Richardson served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. Gary Locke was a two-term governor of the state of Washington from 1997 to 2005.</p> <p>Richardson, an attorney, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Defense, Attorney General, and U.S. Ambassador before becoming Secretary of Commerce.</p> <p>W. Averell Harriman and Mickey Kantor also held diplomatic posts before becoming Secretaries of Commerce. Harriman served as U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and to Great Britain. Kantor served as the U.S. Trade Representative.</p> <p>Daniel Roper's 50-year career in government service included positions with the U.S. Tariff Commission and as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He also worked for the Census Bureau, which was part of the Department of Commerce when he became Secretary.</p> <h2>Youngest and Oldest Appointees</h2> <p>The youngest person named Secretary was 38-year-old Alexander Trowbridge, an oil company executive who joined the Department as an assistant secretary.</p> <p>Before 2017, the oldest to be appointed was Philip Klutznick, 72, with over 55 years of experience in investment banking and private equity. Wilbur L. Ross Jr. was sworn into office on February 28, 2017, at 79, making him the oldest first-time Cabinet appointee in U.S. history.</p> <h2>Education</h2> <p>Most Secretaries were college graduates, many with degrees from Ivy League universities, but Jesse Jones, the Secretary who directed the Commerce Department's responses to war needs between 1940 and 1945, received his formal education at a rural schoolhouse in Kentucky.</p> <h2>Secretaries of Commerce and the Years They Served</h2> <p><a href="//www.commerce.gov/about/leadership/wilbur-ross">Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.</a>, February 28, 2017 – January 20, 2021</p> <ul><li><a href="https://2017-2021.commerce.gov/about/leadership.html" rel="noreferrer">Leadership Team</a></li> <li><a href="https://2017-2021.commerce.gov/news/speeches.html" rel="noreferrer">Secretary Ross Speeches</a></li> </ul><p><a href="//www.commerce.gov/about/leadership/penny-pritzker">Penny S. Pritzker, </a>June 26, 2013 – January 20, 2017</p> <ul><li><a href="https://2014-2017.commerce.gov/directory/leadership.html" rel="noreferrer">Leadership Team</a></li> <li><a href="https://2014-2017.commerce.gov/news/secretary-speeches.html" rel="noreferrer">Secretary Pritzker Speeches</a></li> </ul><p><a href="https://2010-2014.commerce.gov/about-commerce/commerce-leadership/secretary-john-bryson.html" rel="noreferrer">John E. Bryson</a><br /> October 21, 2011- June 21, 2012</p> <p><a href="https://2010-2014.commerce.gov/about-commerce/commerce-leadership/secretary-gary-locke.html" rel="noreferrer">Gary F. Locke</a><br /> March 26, 2009 - August 1, 2011</p> <p><a href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/gutierrez-bio.html" rel="noreferrer">Carlos M. Gutierrez</a><br /> February 7, 2005 - January 19, 2009</p> <p><a href="//www.commerce.gov/about/leadership/donald-l-evans">Donald L. Evans</a><br /> January 20, 2001 - February 3, 2005</p> <p><a href="//www.commerce.gov/about/leadership/norman-y-mineta">Norman A. Mineta</a><br /> July 21, 2000 - January 19, 2001</p> <p>William M. Daley<br /> January 30, 1997 - July 19, 2000</p> <p>Mickey Kantor<br /> April 12, 1996 - January 21, 1997</p> <p>Ronald H. Brown<br /> January 22, 1993 - April 3, 1996</p> <p>Barbara H. Franklin<br /> February 27, 1992 - January 20, 1993</p> <p>Robert A. Mosbacher<br /> January 31, 1989 - January 15, 1992</p> <p>C. William Verity<br /> October 19, 1987 - January 30, 1989</p> <p>Malcolm Baldrige<br /> January 20, 1981 - July 25, 1987</p> <p>Philip M. Klutznick<br /> January 9, 1980 - January 19, 1981</p> <p>Juanita M. Kreps<br /> January 23, 1977 - October 31, 1979</p> <p>Elliot L. Richardson<br /> February 2, 1976 - January 20, 1977</p> <p>Rogers C. B. Morton<br /> May 1, 1975 - February 2, 1976</p> <p>Frederick B. Dent<br /> February 2, 1973 - March 26, 1975</p> <p>Peter G. Peterson<br /> February 29, 1972 - February 1, 1973</p> <p>Maurice H. Stans<br /> January 21, 1969 - February 15, 1972</p> <p>C. R. Smith<br /> March 6, 1968 - January 19, 1969</p> <p>Alexander B. Trowbridge<br /> June 14, 1967 - March 1, 1968</p> <p>John T. Connor<br /> January 18, 1965 - January 31, 1967</p> <p>Luther H. Hodges<br /> January 21, 1961 - January 15, 1965</p> <p>Frederick H. Mueller<br /> August 10, 1959 - January 19, 1961</p> <p>Lewis L. Strauss (Interim appointee)<br /> November 13, 1958 - June 30, 1959</p> <p>Sinclair Weeks<br /> January 21, 1953 - November 10, 1958</p> <p>Charles Sawyer<br /> May 6, 1948 - January 20, 1953</p> <p>W. Averell Harriman<br /> October 7, 1946 - April 22, 1948</p> <p>Henry A. Wallace<br /> March 2, 1945 - September 20, 1946</p> <p>Jesse H. Jones<br /> September 19, 1940 - March 1, 1945</p> <p>Harry L. Hopkins<br /> December 24, 1938 - September 18, 1940</p> <p>Daniel C. Roper<br /> March 4, 1933 - December 23, 1938</p> <p>Roy D. 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