Public Affairs

Included in the 69 entries is information about one U.S. President, three U.S. Vice Presidents, four as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, five of Agriculture, two of Navy, two of Interior, two of Defense, one of State, and one of War; one person was presidential nominee three times, one was vice presidential nominee, two served on board of governors of U.S. Federal Reserve System, one as director of Small Business Administration, one as chairman of Federal Farm Board, one as first vice chairman of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, one as president pro tempore of U.S. Senate, one as President of Latvia, one as Chief of Cabinet Ministers of Argentina, one as Mayor of Los Angeles, one as special counsel and one as personal secretary to U.S. President, one as political aide to four U.S. Presidents; first U.S. President to hold the nation’s two top posts without being elected to either, the eighth woman in history to serve in U.S. Senate, the first woman U.S. Senator to succeed a woman U.S. Senator, first woman to serve as diplomat in U.S. Foreign Service; one person succeeded in making electricity available in rural America, another in passage of constitutional amendment to limit presidency to two terms, another in introducing legislation that was forerunner of Food and Drug Act and later the Food and Drug Administration, another in extending social security benefits to public employees and self-employed persons, another in founding Arbor Day; nine appeared on cover of Time, two on cover of Newsweek, two received Horatio Alger Award, seven the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and one the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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