John Thomas Dunlop

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The official portrait of John T. Dunlop hangs in the Department of Labor

John Thomas Dunlop (July 5, 1914 - October 2, 2003) was a U.S. administrator and labor scholar.

He was the Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976. He was also Director of the U.S. Cost of Living Council from 1973-1974, Chairman of the U.S.Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations from 1993-1995 and arbitrator and impartial chairman of various U.S. labor-management committees, member of numerous government boards on industrial relations disputes and economic stabilization programs.

A labor economist, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1939. He taught at Harvard University from 1938 until his retirement as Lamont University Professor in 1984. While at Harvard, he was Chairman of the Economics Department from 1961-1966 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1969-1973.

Among the numerous books he wrote are "Industrial Relations Systems" (1958, 1993); "Industrialism and Industrial Man" (1960, joint author); "Labor and the American Community" (1970, with Derek C. Bok); "Dispute Resolution, Negotiation and Consensus Building (1984); and "The Management of Labor Unions" (1990).

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Preceded by Peter J. Brennan	U.S. Secretary of Labor 1975–1976	Succeeded by William Usery Jr.

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Secretaries of Commerce & Labor	Cortelyou • Metcalf • Straus • Nagel

Secretaries of Labor	Wilson • Davis • Doak • Perkins • Schwellenbach • Tobin • Durkin • Mitchell • Goldberg • Wirtz • Shultz • Hodgson • Brennan • Dunlop • Usery • Marshall • Donovan • Brock • McLaughlin • Dole • Martin • Reich • Herman • Chao

v • d • e Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

Vice President	Vacant (1974), Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977)

Secretary of State	Henry Kissinger (1974–1977)

Secretary of the Treasury	William E. Simon (1974–1977)

Secretary of Defense	James R. Schlesinger (1974–1975) • Donald Rumsfeld (1975–1977)

Attorney General	William Saxbe (1974-1975) • Edward Levi (1975-1977)

Secretary of the Interior	Rogers Morton (1974–1975) • Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) • Thomas S. Kleppe (1975-1977)

Secretary of the Agriculture	Earl Butz (1974–1976) • John Albert Knebel (1976-1977)

Secretary of Commerce	Frederick B. Dent (1974–1975) • Rogers Morton (1975) • Elliot Richardson (1975-1977)

Secretary of Labor	Peter J. Brennan (1974–1975) • John Thomas Dunlop (1975–1976) • William Usery, Jr. (1976-1977)

Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare	Caspar Weinberger (1974-1975) • F. David Mathews (1975-1977)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	James Thomas Lynn (1974-1975) • Carla Anderson Hills (1975–1977)

Secretary of Transportation	Claude Brinegar (1974–1975) • William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (1975–1977)