Harold L. Ickes

In the 1930s Ickes ordered the desegregation of national parks including those in the South. Harold Lill Ickes (/ˈɪkəs/ IK-əss; March 15 1874 – February 3 1952) was a United States administrator and politician. W.

S. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for 13 years from 1933 to 1946 the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office and the second longest serving Cabinet member in U.