Editing Hubert Work

{{short description|American physician}}

{{Infobox officeholder
| 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]], 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          = United States
| branch              = [[United States Army]]
| rank                = [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]]
| unit                = [[Medical Corps (United States Army)|United States Army Medical Corps]]
| battles             = [[World War I]]
| serviceyears        = 1917–1919
}}
'''Hubert Work''' (July 3, 1860{{spaced ndash}}December 14, 1942) was an American politician 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 [[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>

==Personal life==
In 1887, Work married Laura M. Arbuckle, 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}}
*[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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