Patricia Roberts Harris

Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the last United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the first United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the administration of President Jimmy Carter. She was the first African American woman to serve as a United States Ambassador, representing the U.S. in Luxembourg under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and the first to enter the line of succession to the Presidency.

Category:United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services
Category:United States Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare
Category:United States Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development
Category:Politicians from Illinois
Category:1924 births
Category:1985 deaths