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Hubert Work (July 3, 1860December 14, 1942) was a U.S. administrator and physician. He served as the U.S. Postmaster General between from 1922 until 1923 during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. He served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1923 until 1928, during the administration of President 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 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 and served as the Colorado state chairman in 1912. In 1914, Work ran unsuccessfully in a special election for the United States Senate. He was defeated by Democrat 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 the 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 U.S. Army Medical Corps and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1921 to 1922,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full List of Annual Meetings and Presidents )〕 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 Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1928 to 1929. Work served as the U.S. Assistant Postmaster General from 1921 to 1922, and he served as the U.S. Postmaster General from 1922 to 1923 under President Harding. He served as the 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 at the end of Department of the Interior on July 24, 1928. He was replaced by Roy O. West. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hubert Work」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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