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{{short description|American physician}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Hubert Work
| image = HWork-SecofInter2.jpg
| imagesite =
| caption =
| order = 29th
| office = United States Secretary of the Interior
| term_start = March 4, 1923
| term_end = July 24, 1928
| president = [[Warren G. Harding]]<br />[[Calvin Coolidge]]
| predecessor = [[Albert B. Fall]]
| successor = [[Roy Owen West|Roy O. West]]
| order2 = 47th
| office2 = United States Postmaster General
| term_start2 = March 4, 1922
| term_end2 = March 4, 1923
| president2 = [[Warren G. Harding]]
| predecessor2 = [[Will H. Hays]]
| successor2 = [[Harry Stewart New|Harry S. New]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|7|3}}
| birth_place = [[Marion Center, Pennsylvania|Marion Center]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|12|14|1860|7|3}}
| death_place = [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], [[United States]]
| resting_place = [[Arlington National Cemetery]] in [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]], [[United States]]
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse =
| relations =
| children =
| parents =
| alma_mater = [[University of Michigan]]<br />[[University of Pennsylvania]]
| profession = [[Politician]]
| religion = [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]]
| signature =
| branch = [[United States Army]]
| rank = [[Lieutenant Colonel]]
| unit = [[United States Army Medical Corps|Medical Corps]]
| battles = [[World War I]]
}}
 
{{Infobox officeholder
'''Hubert Work''' (July 3, 1860{{spaced ndash}}December 14, 1942) was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Administration (government)|administrator]] and [[physician]]. He served as the [[United States Postmaster General|U.S. Postmaster General]] between from 1922 until 1923 during the presidency of [[Warren G. Harding]]. He served as the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|U.S. Secretary of the Interior]] from 1923 until 1928 during the administrations of Warren G. Harding and [[Calvin Coolidge]].
|name = Hubert Work
|image = HWork-SecofInter2.jpg
|office = Chair of the [[Republican National Committee]]
|term_start = July 24, 1928
|term_end = September 9, 1929
|predecessor = [[William M. Butler]]
|successor = [[Claudius H. Huston]]
|office1 = 29th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]]
|president1 = [[Warren G. Harding]]<br>[[Calvin Coolidge]]
|term_start1 = March 4, 1923
|term_end1 = July 24, 1928
|predecessor1 = [[Albert B. Fall]]
|successor1 = [[Roy Owen West]]
|office2 = 47th [[United States Postmaster General]]
|president2 = [[Warren G. Harding]]
|term_start2 = March 4, 1922
|term_end2 = March 4, 1923
|predecessor2 = [[Will H. Hays]]
|successor2 = [[Harry Stewart New]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1860|7|3}}
|birth_place = [[Marion Center, Pennsylvania|Marion Center]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1942|12|14|1860|7|3}}}}
|death_place = [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], U.S.
|restingplace = [[Arlington National Cemetery]]
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|education = [[Indiana University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Michigan]]<br>[[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]])
|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}
|branch = {{army|United States}}
|rank = [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]]
|unit = [[Medical Corps (United States Army)|United States Army Medical Corps]]
|battles = [[World War I]]
}}
'''Hubert Work''' (July 3, 1860{{spaced ndash}}December 14, 1942) was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Administration (government)|administrator]] and [[physician]]. He served as the [[United States Postmaster General]] from 1922 until 1923 during the presidency of [[Warren G. Harding]]. He served as the [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] from 1923 until 1928 during the administrations of Warren G. Harding and [[Calvin Coolidge]].
 
==Early life and career==
Work was born in [[Marion Center, Pennsylvania]], to Tabitha Van Horn and Moses Thompson Work. He attended medical school at the [[University of Michigan]] from 1882 to 1883 and received an [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1885. He settled in [[Colorado]] and founded Woodcroft Hospital in [[Pueblo, Colorado]], in 1896.
 
Work was active in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and served as the Colorado state chairman in 1912. In [[1914 United States Senate election in Colorado|1914]], Work ran unsuccessfully in a [[special election]] for the [[United States Senate]]. He was defeated by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Charles Spalding Thomas|Charles S. Thomas]], later the [[Governorgovernor of Colorado|governor]] of Colorado.
 
Work received 98,728 votes (39 percent) compared to Thomas' 102,037 ballots (40.3 percent). This was the Colorado's first Senate election by popular vote under the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Seventeenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. During [[World War I]], Work served in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] Medical Corps and attained the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]].
 
From 1921 to 1922,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-history/full-list-annual-meetings-presidents.page|title=Full List of Annual Meetings and Presidents|work=American Medical Association|accessdateaccess-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> Work served as the president of the [[American Medical Association]]. He was the Colorado delegate to the [[Republican National Convention]] in 1920, and was the Chairmanchairman of the [[Republican National Committee]] from 1928 to 1929.
 
Work served as the [[United States Assistant Postmaster General|U.S. Assistant Postmaster General]] from 1921 to 1922, and he served as the [[United States Postmaster General|U.S. Postmaster General]] from 1922 to 1923 under [[President of the United States|President]] Harding. He served as the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|U.S. Secretary of the Interior]] from 1923 to 1928, under the administrations of President [[Warren G. Harding]] and [[Calvin Coolidge]]. During Work's tenure as the Secretary of the Interior, [[American citizenship]] was a formally granted to the [[Native Americans in the United States]]. He resigned from the [[United States Department of the Interior|Department of the Interior]] on July 24, 1928, and was replaced by [[Roy Owen West|Roy O. West]]. He was the first physician to serve in the U.S. Cabinet.<ref>{{cite book|title=The United States Executive Branch: A Biographical Directory of Heads of State and Cabinet Officials |author=Robert Sobel and David B. Sicilia |date=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://quiznox.com/2017/01/23/how-educated-is-trumps-cabinet|title=How educated is Trump's Cabinet?|accessdateaccess-date=January 28, 2017}}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
In 1887, Work married Laura M. Arbuckle (1859{{spaced ndash}}1924), with whom he had three children,: Philip, Dorcas "Doris" Logan, and Robert Van Horn Work. Work's first wife died and he married the former Ethel Reed Gano in 1933.
 
Work died in [[Denver|Denver, Colorado]], on December 14, 1942. He was buried in [[Arlington National Cemetery]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]], next to his first wife.
 
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Hubert Work}}
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*[http://www.americanpresident.org/history/calvincoolidge/cabinet/interior/interior/h_index.shtml Hubert Work biography at americanpresident.org]
*[http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hwork.htm Photographs of Hubert Work's Gravestone]
*[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4199r85d/ Hubert Work papers] at the [http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Hoover Institution Archives]
*Psychiatry Dr. Hubert Work, School of Medicine Faculty Profiles: 1883–1933, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus https://library-cuanschutz.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=54060112
 
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| before= [[Will H. Hays]]
| after= [[Harry Stewart New|Harry S. New]]
| years= March 4, 1922 – March 4, 1923
| president= [[Warren G. Harding]]
| office= [[United States Postmaster General]]}}
{{U.S. Cabinet official box
|before= [[Albert B. Fall]]
|after= [[Roy Owen West|Roy O. West]]
|years= March 5, 1923 – July 24, 1928
|president= [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Calvin Coolidge]]
|department= Secretary of the Interior}}
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