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Ray Marshall
16th United States Secretary of Labor
In office January 27, 1977 – January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	William Usery Jr.
Succeeded by	Raymond J. Donovan
Personal details
Born	Freddie Ray Marshall (1928-08-22) August 22, 1928 (age 96) Oak Grove, Louisiana, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Hinds Community College Millsaps College (BA) Louisiana State University (MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Navy
Battles/wars	World War II

Freddie Ray Marshall (born August 22, 1928) is an American economist who is the professor emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Early life and education

Marshall was born in 1928 in Oak Grove, Louisiana and had lived in an orphanage. Marshall joined the United States Navy in 1943 when he was fifteen years old and served during World War II. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Millsaps College, a Master of Arts from Louisiana State University, and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in economics. As a PhD student, Marshall's research was supervised by Walter Galenson.

Career

He has held several academic posts, but since 1962 has been at the University of Texas, with the exception of his term as United States Secretary of Labor as a member of Jimmy Carter's Administration. As Secretary of Labor, he expanded public service and job-training programs, as a part of Carter's economic stimulus program. Marshall was also one of the founders of the Economic Policy Institute in 1986.

Books

• F. Ray Marshall, Labor in the South, Harvard University Press, 1967. ISBN 9780674507005.
• Ray Marshall; Marc Tucker (October 19, 1993). Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-08557-6.
• Editor: Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America, ISBN 978-0765604255.

References

1. University of Virginia-Miller Center-F. Ray Miller

External links

• U.S. Department of Labor Marshall biography
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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Secretaries of labor	Wilson Davis Doak Perkins Schwellenbach Tobin Durkin Mitchell Goldberg Wirtz Shultz Hodgson Brennan Dunlop Usery Marshall Donovan Brock McLaughlin Dole Martin Reich Herman Chao Solis Perez Acosta Scalia Walsh Su (acting)

v t e Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
Cabinet Vice President Walter Mondale (1977–1981) Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (1977–1980) Edmund Muskie (1980–1981) Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal (1977–1979) G. William Miller (1979–1981) Secretary of Defense Harold Brown (1977–1981) Attorney General Griffin Bell (1977–1979) Benjamin Civiletti (1979–1981) Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus (1977–1981) Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland (1977–1981) Secretary of Commerce Juanita M. Kreps (1977–1979) Philip Klutznick (1980–1981) Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall (1977–1981) Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr. (1977–1979) Patricia Roberts Harris (1979–1980) Secretary of Health and Human Services Patricia Roberts Harris (1980–1981) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris (1977–1979) Moon Landrieu (1979–1981) Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams (1977–1979) Neil Goldschmidt (1979–1981) Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger (1977–1979) Charles Duncan Jr. (1979–1981) Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler (1979–1981)
Cabinet-level Director of the Office of Management and Budget Bert Lance (1977) James T. McIntyre (1977–1981) Trade Representative Robert S. Strauss (1977–1979) Reubin Askew (1979–1980) Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young (1977–1979) Donald McHenry (1979–1981) National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (1977–1981) Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Charles Schultze (1977–1981)

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