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Secretaries of Labor & Industry

1913: Commissioner John Price Jackson 1968: John K. Tabor
1919: Commissioner Clifford B. Connelley 1969: Clifford L. Jones
1923: Commissioner Royal Meeker 1970: Theodore Robb
1925: Richard H. Lansburgh 1971: Paul J. Smith
1927: Charles A. Waters 1979: Myron L. Joseph
1929: Peter Glick 1979: Charles J. Lieberth
1931: Arthur Miller Northrop 1981: Barry H. Stern
1933: Charlotte E. Carr 1984: James W. Knepper Jr.
1935: Edward Noel Jones 1987: Harris Wofford
1935: Ralph Moody Bashore 1991: Thomas Patrick Foley
1939: Lewis G. Hines 1994: Robert S. Barnett
1943: William H. Chesnut 1995: Johnny J. Butler
1951: David M. Walker 2003: Stephen M. Schmerin
1955: John R. Torquato 2008: Sandi Vito
1957: William L. Batt, Jr. 2011: Julia K. Hearthway
1961: A. Allen Sulcowe 2015: Kathy Manderino
1963: William P. Young 2017: W. Gerard "Jerry" Oleksiak
1967: William Joseph Hart

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