the first known such employee was gifford pinchot, working for theodore roosevelt. after pinchot, the united states department of agriculture employed several dollar-a-year men. on june 19, 1933, frances perkins, secretary of labor appointed a five-member labor advisory board, of whom two members came from the amalgamated clothing workers union, of whom one, sidney hillman, was a dollar-a-year man. progressive lawyer max lowenthal was a dollar-a-year man as legal counsel on various congressional committees, befriended u.s. senator harry s. truman, and wound up as a dollar-a-year man in president truman's cabinet.