Editing Hubert Work (section)

==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 [[governor of Colorado]].

Work received 98,728 votes (39 percent) compared to Thomas' 102,037 ballots (40.3 percent).  This was Colorado's first Senate election by popular vote under the [[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|access-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 chairman 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 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 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?|access-date=January 28, 2017}}</ref>