FDR Cabinet

Question 1

What was different about FDR’s cabinet? (first time in history)

Answer 1

all sworn in at once

Question 2

VP; 1933-1941

Answer 2

J.N. Garner

Question 3

VP; 1941-1945

Answer 3

H. Wallace

Question 4

VP; 1/1945 - 4/1945Really strict about spending money

Answer 4

H. Truman

Question 5

Secretary of State; 1933-1944”Good Neighbor Policy” WWII, Won Nobel Peace Prize 1945, served longer than any other

Answer 5

Cordell Hull

Question 6

Secretary of State; 1944-stayed on for Truman

Answer 6

E. Stettinius Jr.

Question 7

Secretary of Treasury; 3/1933 - 12/1933

Answer 7

W. Woodin

Question 8

Secretary of Treasury; 1934-1945Longtime friend, dealt with revenue during Depression and war bonds

Answer 8

H. Morgenthau

Question 9

Secretary of War; 1933-1936

Answer 9

G. Dern

Question 10

Secretary of War; 1936-1940Objected to aid to Allies

Answer 10

H. Woodring

Question 11

Secretary of War; 1940-1945Supported Lend-Lease, atomic program, stayed on for Truman

Answer 11

H. Stimson

Question 12

*Attorney General; 1933-1939Dealt with constitutionality of New Deal, court packing scheme

Answer 12

H. Cummings

Question 13

Attorney General; 1939-1940resigned to go on Supreme Court

Answer 13

F. Murphy

Question 14

Attorney General; 1940-1943Left for Supreme Court

Answer 14

Robert Jackson

Question 15

Attorney General; 1941-1945Internment of Japanese Americans

Answer 15

F. Biddle

Question 16

Secretary of Navy; 1933-1939major naval expansion

Answer 16

C. Swanson

Question 17

Secretary of Navy; 1/1940 - 6/1940Son of Thomas Edison, Saved WWI vessels from scrap heap to give to England

Answer 17

C. Edison

Question 18

Secretary of Navy; 1940-1944Republican VP nominee, In 1936 had massive build up in WWII

Answer 18

F. Knox

Question 19

*1st Secretary of Defense

Answer 19

James Forrestal

Question 20

Post Master General; 1933-1940Didn’t agree with 3rd time and challenged him

Answer 20

J. Farley

Question 21

Post Master General; 1940-1945stayed for Truman

Answer 21

F. Walker

Question 22

*Secretary of Interior; 1933-1946Republican, directed PWA, brought conservationists in

Answer 22

H. Ickes

Question 23

Secretary of Agriculture; 1933-1940Actively assisted farmers, food stamp program, school milk program

Answer 23

H. Wallace

Question 24

Secretary of Agriculture; 1940-1945Created War Food Administration in WWII, stayed for Truman

Answer 24

C. Wickard

Question 25

Secretary of Commerce; 1933-1938minister to Canada

Answer 25

D. Roper

Question 26

*Secretary of Commerce; 1938-1940Had been director of FERA and WPA

Answer 26

H. Hopkin

Question 27

Secretary of Commerce; 1940-1945War productions board

Answer 27

J. Jones

Question 28

Secretary of Commerce; 1945-1946Had been Secretary of Agriculture and VP

Answer 28

H. Wallace

Question 29

*Secretary of Labor; 1933-1945First woman, Social Security Act, Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 29

F. Perkins