With a mission to promote American businesses and industries, this cabinet member once also covered the Department of Labor?

Founded in 1903, the Department of Commerce was united under a single bannerhead with another department until 1913: the Department of Commerce and Labor. Now, this department involves all things business and industry. The secretary of commerce advises the president in a mission "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce".

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