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Which U.S. cabinet positions did Patricia Roberts Harris hold?

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As secretary of housing and urban development (1977) under President Jimmy Carter, she was the first African-American woman to serve in a cabinet post. From 1979 to 1981 she was secretary of health, education, and welfare (health and human services after 1980).

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