James Day Hodgson
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Officeholder James Day Hodgson (December 3, 1915Template:Spaced ndashNovember 28, 2012) was an American politician. He served as the Secretary of Labor and the Ambassador to Japan.<ref name=obit/>
Life and career
Hodgson was born in Dawson, Minnesota, the son of Fred Arthur Hodgson, a lumberyard owner, and his wife, Casaraha M. (née Day). He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1938 where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity,<ref name="HAAS10">Template:Cite book</ref> and began graduate studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He married the former Maria Denend on August 24, 1943. They had two children, Nancy Ruth Hodgson, and Frederick Jesse Hodgson.
During World War II, Hodgson served as an officer in the United States Navy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He worked for Lockheed for 25 years. From 1970 to 1973, Hodgson served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Labor, and from 1974 to 1977, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan under Gerald Ford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Beginning in 1977, Hodgson served as the Chairman of the Board of the Uranium Mining Company. Hodgson served as an adjunct professor at University of California, Los Angeles and was visiting scholar from the American Enterprise Institute.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Following the death of former Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz on April 24, 2010, Hodgson became the oldest living former Cabinet member. He died on November 28, 2012, in Malibu, California, and is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Los Angeles, California.<ref name=obit>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Publications
- "American Senryu", The Japan Times, 1992 (a collection of senryū, short humorous poems similar to haiku)
- "Doing Business with the New Japan", 2000 (written with Yoshihiro Sano and John L. Graham)
References
External links
- U.S. Department of Labor Biography
- Finding Aid of the James D. Hodgson Papers (California Digital Library)
- Price Comparisons Between the Japanese and U.S. Markets (RAND Corporation, 1991)
- US Department of State
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- 1915 births
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- Ambassadors of the United States to Japan
- United States Navy personnel of World War II
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
- Ford administration personnel
- Lockheed people
- Nixon administration cabinet members
- 20th-century American politicians
- People from Dawson, Minnesota
- RAND Corporation people
- United States Navy officers
- United States secretaries of labor
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- University of Minnesota alumni
- 20th-century American diplomats