{"id":1884,"date":"2026-01-13T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:33:46","slug":"robert-c-weaver-became-the-first-african-american-appointed-to-the-presidential-cabinet-in-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Robert C. Weaver Became the First African American Appointed to a Presidential Cabinet in 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 114px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/24\/Robert_C._Weaver_official_portrait.jpg\/174px-Robert_C._Weaver_official_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"143\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert C. Weaver<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Robert C. Weaver became the first African American appointed to a\u00a0presidential cabinet<\/strong>. President Lyndon Baines Johnson made Weaver Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966. Children can view the list of current Cabinet members at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential Cabinet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. Weaver became the first African American appointed to a\u00a0presidential cabinet. President Lyndon Baines Johnson made Weaver Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966. Children can view the list of current Cabinet members at: Presidential Cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4965,4962,4954,4963,4961,4964],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4965","tag-first-african-american-in-cabinet","tag-january-13","tag-lyndon-baines-johnson","tag-robert-c-weaver","tag-secretary-of-housing-and-urban-development","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24225,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/24225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}