W. WILLARD WIRTZ

35. KENNEDY
36. JOHNSON
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FULL NAME:
William Willard Wirtz Jr.

BORN:
March 14, 1912;
DeKalb, Illinois

DIED:
April 24, 2010 (age 98);
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
Beloit College (BA in Sociology, 1933)
Harvard University (LLB, 1937)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic

HIGHLIGHTS:
1933-1934:
English and American History Teacher, Kewanee (Illinois) High School
1937-1939:
Law Instructor, University of Iowa
1939-1942: 
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
1942-1943:
Assistant General Counsel, Board of Economic Welfare
1943-1945:
National War Labor Board
1946-1947:
Chairman, National Wage Stabilization Board, Department of Labor
1946-1954:
Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
1947-1956:
Permanent Arbitrator, U.S. Rubber Company
1948:
Railroad Emergency Board
1950:
Taft-Hartley Act Board
1951-1953:
Executive Director, Wage Stabilization Board
1955-1961:
Partner, Stevenson, Rifkind and Wirtz, Chicago
1956:
Strategist, Adlai E. Stevenson Campaign
1960:
United Auto Workers Public Review Board
1961-1962:
Under Secretary of Labor
1962-1969:
U.S. Secretary of Labor
1970-1978:
Partner, Wirtz and Gentry, Washington, DC
1979:
Became Partner, Wirtz and LaPointe, Washington, DC
1984-1989: 
Partner, Friedman and Wirtz, Washington, DC.
2010:
Died in Washington, DC on April 24;
Last Surviving Member of the Kennedy Cabinet

PORTRAIT:

 Secretary of Labor W. William Wirtz (JFK Presidential Library and Museum )

RESOURCES: 

9/25/1962: President John F. Kennedy and others observe as W. Willard Wirtz is sworn in as Secretary of Labor; Assistant Executive Clerk of the White House, Herbert L. Miller, administers the oath. Left to right: Dorothy Goldberg; Supreme Court Justice and former Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; President of Building and Construction Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Cornelius J. Haggerty; President Kennedy; Secretary Wirtz; Mr. Miller; Mary Jane Quisenberry Wirtz; William Wilbur Wirtz (in back, mostly hidden); Jeann Sohner Wirtz. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)

BIOGRAPHIES:
JFK Library
Department of Labor
UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia

RESEARCH:
Papers (JFK Library)

MEDIA COVERAGE:

2/12/1968: L-R: Secretary of Labor  Willard Wirtz and President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office of the White House (LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto)

OBITUARIES:
New York Times
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times