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James Day Hodgson (December 3, 1915November 28, 2012) was an American politician. He served as the Secretary of Labor and the Ambassador to Japan.〔 ==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, and completed his graduate studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= James D. Hodgson )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hodgson, James Day (b. 1915) )〕 He worked for Lockheed Martin for 25 years. From 1970 to 1973, Hodgson served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor for President Nixon, and from 1974 to 1977, he served as the Ambassador to Japan during the Ford Administration.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= James Day Hodgson (1915-) )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Finding Aid of the James D. Hodgson Papers )〕 Following the death of former Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz on April 24, 2010, Hodgson became the oldest living former Cabinet member. Hodgson died on November 28, 2012, in Malibu, California, and is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Los Angeles, California. 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「James Day Hodgson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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