Martin Patrick Durkin

Martin Patrick Durkin (born March 18, 1894 in Chicago , Illinois , † January 19, 1955 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) and between January 21, 1953 and September 10 of the same year 7 United States Secretary of Labor .

Martin Patrick Durkin served in the First World War . In 1921 he married Anna H. McNicholas, with whom he had three sons. In 1953 he was briefly a member of the Eisenhower cabinet as labor minister .

Web links

Biography at the Ministry of Labor / Department of Labor (English)
Martin Patrick Durkin in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)


Vice President	Richard Nixon (1953-1961)
Foreign minister	John Foster Dulles (1953-1959) \| Christian Herter (1959–1961)
Finance minister	George M. Humphrey (1953-1957) \| Robert B. Anderson (1957–1961)
Defense Minister	Charles Erwin Wilson (1953–1957) \| Neil H. McElroy (1957-1959) \| Thomas S. Gates (1959–1961)
Minister of Justice	Herbert Brownell junior (1953–1957) \| William P. Rogers (1957–1961)
Post Minister	Arthur E. Summerfield (1953-1961)
Interior minister	Douglas McKay (1953-1956) \| Fred Andrew Seaton (1956-1961)
Minister of Agriculture	Ezra Taft Benson (1953-1961)
Minister of Commerce	Sinclair Weeks (1953-1958) \| Lewis Strauss (1958-1959) \| Frederick H. Mueller (1959–1961)
Minister of Labor	Martin Patrick Durkin (1953) \| James P. Mitchell (1953-1961)
Minister of Health, Education and Welfare	Oveta Culp Hobby (1953–1955) \| Marion Bayard Folsom (1955-1958) \| Arthur Flemming (1958–1961)