Ray Marshall
16thUnited States Secretary of Labor
In office January 27, 1977 – January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	William Usery Jr.
Succeeded by	Raymond J. Donovan
Personal details
Born	Freddie Ray Marshall (1928-08-22)August 22, 1928 (age 96) Oak Grove, Louisiana, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Hinds Community College Millsaps College (BA) Louisiana State University (MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Navy
Battles/wars	World War II

Freddie Ray Marshall (born August 22, 1928) is an American economist who is the professor emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at theUniversity of Texas at Austin.

Marshall was born in 1928 inOak Grove,Louisiana and had lived in an orphanage. Marshall joined theUnited States Navy in 1943 when he was fifteen years old and served duringWorld War II. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree fromMillsaps College, a Master of Arts fromLouisiana State University, and a PhD in economics from theUniversity of California, Berkeley ineconomics. As a PhD student, Marshall's research was supervised byWalter Galenson.

He has held several academic posts, but since 1962 has been at theUniversity of Texas, with the exception of his term asUnited States Secretary of Labor as a member ofJimmy Carter'sAdministration.^[1] As Secretary of Labor, he expandedpublic service and job-training programs, as a part of Carter's economic stimulus program. Marshall was also one of the founders of theEconomic Policy Institute in 1986.

• F. Ray Marshall,Labor in the South, Harvard University Press, 1967.ISBN 9780674507005.
• Ray Marshall; Marc Tucker (October 19, 1993).Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations.Basic Books.ISBN 978-0-465-08557-6.
• Editor:Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America,ISBN 978-0765604255.

• U.S. Department of Labor Marshall biography
• Appearances onC-SPAN

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