HUBERT WORK

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BORN:
July 3, 1860;
Marion Center, Pennsylvania

DIED:
December 14, 1942 (age 82);
Denver, Colorado

EDUCATION:
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (BA);
University of Michigan  Ann Arbor (Attended Medical School, 1882-1883)
University of Pennsylvania (MD, 1885)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1896-1917:
Founder/ Director, Woodcroft Hospital for mental illnesses 
1908:
Chair, Colorado State Republican Convention;
Delegate, Republican National Convention
1913-1919:
Member, Republican National Committee
1917:
Joined the Army Medical Corps
1921-1922:
President, American Medical Association;
First Assistant to U.S. Postmaster General Will Hays
1922-1923:
U.S. Postmaster General
1923-1928:
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
1928:
Managed Herbert Hoover’s Presidential Campaign
1928-1929:
Chairman, Republican National Committee

PORTRAIT:

Underwood & Underwood Studios, 1928 (Department of Interior Portrait )

RESOURCES:

Calvin Coolidge, Hubert Work, and Henry C. Wallace in  1924 (Harris & Ewing/ Library of Congress collection)

BIOGRAPHIES:
Miller Center
Wikipedia
American National Biography ($)

ARTICLES:
Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1/1970)