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Hubert Work

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American physician
Hubert Work
Chair of theRepublican National Committee
In office
July 24, 1928 – September 9, 1929
Preceded byWilliam M. Butler
Succeeded byClaudius H. Huston
29thUnited States Secretary of the Interior
In office
March 4, 1923 – July 24, 1928
PresidentWarren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Preceded byAlbert B. Fall
Succeeded byRoy Owen West
47thUnited States Postmaster General
In office
March 4, 1922 – March 4, 1923
PresidentWarren G. Harding
Preceded byWill H. Hays
Succeeded byHarry Stewart New
Personal details
Born(1860-07-03)July 3, 1860
DiedDecember 14, 1942(1942-12-14) (aged 82)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
Political partyRepublican
EducationIndiana University of Pennsylvania (BA)
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania (MD)
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of service1917–1919
RankLieutenant Colonel
UnitUnited States Army Medical Corps
Battles/warsWorld War I

Hubert Work (July 3, 1860 – December 14, 1942) was an American politician andphysician. He served as theUnited States Postmaster General from 1922 until 1923 during the presidency ofWarren G. Harding. He served as theUnited States Secretary of the Interior from 1923 until 1928 during the administrations of Warren G. Harding andCalvin Coolidge.

Early life and career

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Work was born inMarion Center, Pennsylvania, to Tabitha Van Horn and Moses Thompson Work. He attended medical school at theUniversity of Michigan from 1882 to 1883 and received anM.D. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1885. He settled inColorado and founded Woodcroft Hospital inPueblo, Colorado, in 1896.

Work was active in theRepublican Party and served as the Colorado state chairman in 1912. In1914, Work ran unsuccessfully in aspecial election for theUnited States Senate. He was defeated byDemocratCharles S. Thomas, later thegovernor of Colorado.

Work received 98,728 votes (39 percent) compared to Thomas' 102,037 ballots (40.3 percent). This was Colorado's first Senate election by popular vote under theSeventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. DuringWorld War I, Work served in theU.S. Army Medical Corps and attained the rank oflieutenant colonel.

From 1921 to 1922,[1] Work served as the president of theAmerican Medical Association. He was the Colorado delegate to theRepublican National Convention in 1920 and was chairman of theRepublican National Committee from 1928 to 1929.

Work served as theU.S. Assistant Postmaster General from 1921 to 1922, and as theU.S. Postmaster General from 1922 to 1923 underPresident Harding. He served as theU.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1923 to 1928, under the administrations of PresidentWarren G. Harding andCalvin Coolidge. During Work's tenure as the Secretary of the Interior,American citizenship was formally granted to theNative Americans in the United States. He resigned from theDepartment of the Interior on July 24, 1928, and was replaced byRoy O. West. He was the first physician to serve in the U.S. Cabinet.[2][3]

Personal life

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In 1887, Work married Laura M. Arbuckle, with whom he had three children: Philip, Dorcas "Doris" Logan, and Robert Van Horn Work. Work's first wife died and he married the former Ethel Reed Gano in 1933.

Work died inDenver, Colorado, on December 14, 1942. He was buried inArlington National Cemetery inArlington, Virginia, next to his first wife.

References

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  1. ^"Full List of Annual Meetings and Presidents".American Medical Association. Retrieved25 November 2012.
  2. ^Robert Sobel and David B. Sicilia (2003).The United States Executive Branch: A Biographical Directory of Heads of State and Cabinet Officials.
  3. ^"How educated is Trump's Cabinet?". RetrievedJanuary 28, 2017.

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