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Who appointed Ray Lyman Wilbur as the United States Secretary of the Interior?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Herbert Hoover

  • Woodrow Wilson

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President Herbert Hoover appointed Ray Lyman Wilbur as the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior in 1929. Hoover and Wilbur were friends from their time at Stanford University, and Hoover valued Wilbur's expertise in managing resources and institutions.
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