Ray Marshall

Ray Marshall

Freddie Ray Marshall (* 22. August 1928 in Oak Grove , West Carroll Parish , Louisiana ) is a retired American university professor and former politician ( Democratic Party ), who President Jimmy Carter , the Office of the US Secretary of Labor held.

Ray Marshall grew up in an orphanage. At the age of 15 he enrolled in the US Navy , giving false information about his year of birth. After fighting in World War II , he studied at Louisiana State University and Millsaps College . He later earned his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley .

He subsequently held various academic posts before moving to the University of Texas at Austin in 1962 . There he held the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair , a chair for economics and public policy, for many years until his retirement in 1998 .

An exception was his tenure as a member of the US government under Jimmy Carter. From January 27, 1977 to January 20, 1981, Marshall headed the Department of Labor , which at that time played an important role in Carter's attempt to stimulate the economy again. As Secretary of State, Ray Marshall built civil service and vocational training programs. In his measures, he also paid particular attention to health problems in the workplace and the promotion of working women.

After the Democrats were defeated in the 1980 presidential election , Marshall resigned and returned to the University of Texas. In 1986 he founded the Economic Policy Institute in Washington with a number of other economists, including Lester Thurow and later Minister of Labor Robert B. Reich , a think tank that deals with economic policy issues.

Web links

• Biography at the Department of Labor
• Biography at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
• Ray Marshall in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)