Weaver, Robert Clifton (1907–1997)

US housing administrator and cabinet member. A member of President Franklin Roosevelt's informal ‘Black Cabinet’ (1933–42), he became a New York housing commissioner (1954–59) and Federal Housing Agency administrator (1961–66), coauthoring The Dilemma of Urban America (1965). As President Lyndon Johnson's secretary of housing and urban development (1966–69) – the first African-American cabinet member in US history – he promoted ‘demonstration cities’ funding. He then became president of Bernard Baruch College in New York City. Weaver was born in Washington, DC.