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Encyclopedia > William F. Whiting


Preceded by:
Herbert Hoover		 Secretary of Commerce
August 22, 1928 - March 4, 1929		 Succeeded by:
Robert P. Lamont

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Department of Commerce Home Page - (500 words)
The first Secretary of Commerce, William C. Redfield, was an iron-and-steel executive and author of a book entitled "The New Industrial Day." The first Secretary of Commerce and Labor was George B. Cortelyou.
She was among the first women to graduate from Harvard Business School and served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents.
In 1971, she directed the first White House program to recruit women for high-level government jobs.
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Hoover and his wife are buried at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa.
Hoover was honored with a state funeral, and it was America's third in a span of 12 months (The others were for John F. Kennedy and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur).
The Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, built in 1919 in Palo Alto, California, is now the official residence of the President of Stanford University, and a National Historic Landmark.
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