# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-j-brennan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:08:02.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-j-brennan"
name: "Peter J. Brennan"
slug: "peter-j-brennan"
description: "Peter Joseph Brennan was an American labor activist and politician who served as United States Secretary of Labor from February 2, 1973, until March 15, 1975, in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. Brennan had previously been the president of both the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council of New York, and he returned to the former position after leaving the Ford administration. He was a strong opponent of affirmative action measures to increase the number of minority construction workers. After organizing a demonstration in support of the Nixon administration that turned into the Hard Hat Riot of May 8, 1970, where construction workers violently attacked student anti-war protesters, Brennan was wooed by the Nixon administration as a potential supporter in the 1972 presidential election. His work for Nixon in that election was crucial in increasing the vote for Nixon in New York and in the union movement."
tagline: "American government official (1918-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pjbrennan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-05-24"
deathDate: "1996-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "پتر جی. برنان"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump