Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) served asUnited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the lastUnited States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the firstUnited States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the administration ofPresidentJimmy Carter. She was the firstAfrican American woman to serve as a United StatesAmbassador, representing the U.S. inLuxembourg under PresidentLyndon B. Johnson, and the first to enter theline of succession to the Presidency.
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