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- NAME: Robert Weaver
- OCCUPATION: Academic, Economist
- BIRTH DATE: December 29, 1907
- DEATH DATE: July 17, 1997
- EDUCATION: Harvard University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, D.C.
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Noted economist Robert Weaver, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. cabinet as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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Play NowRobert Clifton Weaver. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 04:42, May 23, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/robert-weaver-9525780.
Robert Clifton Weaver. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/robert-weaver-9525780 [Accessed 23 May 2013].
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Economist Robert Weaver was the first African American to hold a cabinet-level position as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a young man, Weaver had been one of 45 prominent African Americans appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Black Cabinet, where he acted as an informal adviser as well as directing federal programs during the New Deal.
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